The Navy's Fleet Information Warfare Center has also launched unannounced simulated attacks on the network.
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.
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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"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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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.
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.
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.
It turns out the human element still trumps the technological element in warfare, and that digital networks are no better than the quality of the information they are conveying.
However, although it was fully responsive to the call of futuristic thinkers for an information-age fighting force, it seemed from the beginning like an uneasy fit with the kind of warfare the Army was waging in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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