ABSTRACT
Information warfare is a systematic attempt to penetrate the enemy's secrecy and to displace his confidence for the purpose of defeating him in wartime, while undertaking relevant measures to prevent the enemy from doing the same to one's side. While information enjoys a somewhat obscured position in the writings of the thinkers that typically line a strategic studies syllabus, this does not mean that the use of information is irrelevant to winning battles and denying one's enemy the strategic advantage. Information warfare winds an intellectual thread from Machiavelli and Clausewitz through to modern strategy. Comprehending information warfare requires navigating the bureaucratic challenges of pitting centralization against decentralization, the packaging of truth, and the management of television and Internet speed of political events.
