information warfare

1. (Computer Science) the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc

2. (Military) the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc

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information warfare

Information operations conducted during time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries. Also called IW. See also crisis; information; information operations; operation.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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information warfare - the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries; "not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare"

war, warfare - the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"

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Ronfeldt (Eds.), Networks and netwars: The future of terror, crime, and militancy (pp.

Cyberconflict, Online Political Jamming, and Hacking in the Gulf Cooperation Council

A basic thesis of the work is grounded in David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla's early work Networks and Netwars (RAND Corporation, 2001, 182-83):

Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media

The netwar is another feature of the Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW).

The communicational war and utopias/ As utopias e a guerra comunicacional

El primero de ellos es la Netwar; el segundo es la denominacion de insurgentes, que, sumado a la comprension de la articulacion en red de Al Qaeda, tiene consecuencias tanto en la representacion del otro como en las estrategias militares (Arquilla y Ronfeldt 2001).

Continuidades y rupturas en los discursos de la guerra de Afganistan: intelectuales, politicos y soldados

(35.) John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, "Afterword (September 2001): The Sharpening Fight for the Future," in Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy, eds.

The new media and the rise of exhortatory terrorism

Similarly, Cronin (2005) criticizes this kind of short vision and calls for a closer connection between the communities of intelligence and information science, so that information professionals can play more actively than before in intelligence sharing and netwar situations.

The integration of intelligence analysis into LIS education

(173.) Paul Walker, "Traditional Military Activities in Cyberspace: Preparing for 'Netwar" (2010) 22 Florida Journal of International Law 333.

Protecting Australian cyberspace: are our international lawyers ready?

mapped the Al Qaeda terrorism, two years before 9/11, naming it as a "central threat" (52) and as a "netwar".

Defining the "new terrorism ": reconstruction of the enemy in the global risk society: 'Yeni terorizm'i tanimlamak: kuresel risk toplumunda dusmanin yeniden yapilandirilmasi

Uma sofisticada doutrina de guerra em rede (netwar).

Global agenda of the social movements/A agenda global dos movimentos sociais

Shackelford, Nuclearwar to Netwar: Analogizing Cyber Attacks in

"Bloodless weapons"? The need to conduct legal reviews of certain capabilities and the implications of defining them as "weapons"

Feature articles cover topics such as diplomacy before and after conflict, an assessment of opportunities and risks as the war in Afghanistan enters a decisive phase, a call for a paradigm shift from nationbuilding to "netwar" in Afghanistan, as well as several other perspectives on the Afghanistan conflict.

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