Basic Concept of Information Warfare

1. Presented by-
Alok Yadav
Assistant Professor,
Department of Defence Studies,
Hindu College,
Moradabad-244001

2.  Information warfare is not a new
phenomenon
 The term information warfare refers to
peace time activities
 psychological operations (psyop)
 cyber war/net war
 In wartime the term is Command, Control,
Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Sensors, Reconnaissance Warfare (C4ISRW)

3.  Let us ignore C3 on this course and focus on
information warfare as cyber war,also called
hacker warfare .
 Today war has became cyber warfare so it
become easy to fight with minds.

4.  Information warfare is actions taken to
achieve information superiority in support of
national military strategy by affecting
adversary information and information
systems while leveraging and protecting our
information and information systems.

5.  Command and Control Warfare – targeting
the command systems and their
communications links;
 Intelligence Based Warfare – the use of
precision munitions enabled by sensor
technology and communications that are
linked for near-real time targeting
information;

6.  Traditional forms of Information Warfare
 Psychological Operations
 Electronic Warfare
 Physical Destruction
 Security Measures
 Information Attack

7. Uses of technology in information
warfare

8.  Network Warfare – exploitation of computer
networks (often called hacker warfare,
computer network operations, etc.);
 Economic Information Warfare – the use of
computer technology to disrupt the
electronic flow of economic transactions;
and
 Cyber warfare – closely related to Hacker
warfare but more focused on future IW
technology

9.  cyber war is cheap, train the new generation
of terrorist in computer science and
telecommunications
 cyber war is like guerilla war, a modern army
is not well prepared to fight such enemies
 less losses of lives, but not totally bloodless

10.  Cyber warfare/Hacker warfare (around 1990):
 Hackers from the Netherlands hacked into US
DoD computers, obtained masses of data and
tried to sell to Iraq, Saddam Hussain thought it
was a trap and did not buy.
 Spies are quite commonly used as they always
were.
 A school kid jammed the Warwick airport radar
system for a prolonged time. No military goals.
 Various hacker attacks with worms and DDoS
tools.
 American Information warfare attack in the Gulf
war (and in the Iraq freedom) destroyed
communication infrastructure in Iraq, especially
in Baghdad

11. Joint Information Warfare
Network Warfare
(Cyber Warfare,
Hacker Warfare)
Command and
Control Warfare
Psychological
Operations /
WarfareElectromagnetic
Warfare (as a
subsection of
Electronic Warfare)
Intelligence Based
Warfare (Platform
optimization)
Economic Warfare

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