The Navy's Fleet Information Warfare Center has also launched unannounced simulated attacks on the network.
It has markedly expanded its information warfare operations to a level that is clearly designed to disrupt American systems.
In particular, the concept of information warfare (IW) has emerged as a subject of great interest in Chinese military discourse.
Recently, the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU dedicated its 1997-98 annual writing competition on information warfare to Sun Tzu.
In their article, they demonstrate convincingly that the ongoing debate about information warfare in the United States is dominated by two understandings of what information is.
The FARC has benefitted from years of U.S. policies that denied Colombia the tools and training it needed long ago, and runs a significant information warfare operation.
Instead smaller teams of hackers, like LulzSec, are focused on breaking into the servers of their targets to steal sensitive data, a more potent kind of information warfare.
With its purchase of Logicon, it got into information warfare.
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Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) will answer to US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the military command that oversees US nuclear and space operations, as well as information warfare and global military intelligence.
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In fact, some of the most capable users of the Internet routinely engage in information warfare on behalf of Islamofascist terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and their state-sponsors.
Strategically, an aggressor may seek to avoid direct military confrontation with the United States, using instead means such as terrorism, NBC threats, information warfare, or environmental sabotage to achieve its goals.
In fact, unless the Millennium Bug is addressed on a truly national basis it could have much the same, devastating effect as a deliberate Information Warfare assault by a determined adversary.
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And it is pursuing negotiations on prohibiting information warfare and weapons in space that will not prevent either from being used against us, but may deny the U.S. possibly decisive warfighting capabilities against prospective adversaries.
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"They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism, " Clark said.
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Dai's "Direct Information Warfare" on a trip several years ago to Shanghai, when an associate led him (and an interpreter) to an unmarked military bookstore on the top floor of a building on the outskirts of town.
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" The wire service quotes the Pentagon analysis as saying this "concept appears to include a range of weapon systems and technologies related to information warfare, ballistic and anti-ship cruise missiles, advanced fighters and submarines, counterspace system and air defense.
To wit: The US is unwilling to lift a finger to defend itself against an act of information warfare which exposed to the world that the US is unwilling to lift a finger to protect itself and its allies from the most profound military threats endangering international security today.
Like acts of kinetic warfare on military battlefields, WikiLeaks' information warfare against the US aims to weaken the US. By exposing US government secrets, it seeks to embarrass and discredit America in a manner that makes it well neigh impossible for the US to carry out either routine diplomacy or build battlefield coalitions to defeat its enemies.
Thanks to the vast electronics intelligence facilities operated near Lourdes, Cuba by Castro's and the Russians' intelligence services -- facilities that permit the wholesale collection of sensitive U.S. military, diplomatic and economic data (3) and the invasion of millions of Americans' privacy (4) -- the Cuban regime has the capability to conduct sustained and systematic Information Warfare (IW) against the United States.
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Information and Intelligence Warfare Thanks to the vast signal intelligence facilities operated near Lourdes, Cuba by Havana's and Moscow's intelligence services -- facilities that permit the wholesale collection of sensitive U.S. military, diplomatic and commercial data and the invasion of millions of Americans' privacy -- the Cuban regime has the capability to conduct sustained and systematic Information Warfare (IW) against the United States.
That's one reason the U.S. Space Command is joining with the FBI to build an information-warfare strategy.
But he noted that other countries, including Russia, Israel and China, are further along in building their information-warfare capabilities.
Not least, we must use political warfare, information technologies and covert operations inside Iran, together with a comprehensive effort to cut off the Tehran regime's cash-flow.
Just like modern hi-tech research revolutionised military operations over the last 50 years, we are going to see a new revolution, focusing on information operations and cyber warfare.
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Notably, the apparent belief that information is a panacea in warfare could breed dangerous attitudes.
These steps need to be complemented by political warfare initiatives, information operations, expanded intelligence activity and, as appropriate, covert action.
The appreciation for information and its potential advantages in future warfare led Chinese analysts to speculate and theorize on how they might acquire their own set of doctrine and capabilities.
In short, the ability to gather and process information appears to have become a panacea in warfare for many Chinese IW strategists.
Mr Mugabe last week sparked uproar by claiming the cholera outbreak was over in Zimbabwe, while Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said the outbreak was the result of biological warfare launched by former colonial power Britain against Zimbabwe.
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