Subject: INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF INFORMATION WARFARE (IASIW) http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html ( Links at end of article ) Information warfare, also known as I-War, IW, C4I, or Cyberwar, has recently become of increasing importance to the military, the intelligence community, and the business world. The purpose of the IASIW ( a virtual nongovernmental organization) is to facilitate an understanding of information warfare with reference to both military and civilian life. "Communications without intelligence is noise; intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Grey, USMC ". . . attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence." Sun Tzu, The Art of War This page will help you increase your understanding of information warfare. For those unfamiliar with the term, "Information Warfare" the following definition might be helpful: Information warfare is the offensive and defensive use of information and information systems to exploit, corrupt, or destroy, an adversary's information and information systems, while protecting one's own. Such actions are designed to achieve advantages over military or business adversaries. A definition by the National Defense University is also available. For those with little or no background regarding information warfare, a good introduction to the field is that of Reto Haeni. A cover story on information warfare in Time magazine and a story published by The Washington Post are other good introductions to the field. The Boston Globe published its introduction to I-War under the title The Manchurian Printer. A different sort of introduction is Chris Davis' Novel Death by Fire an excerpt of which can be read on-line. Finally, the discussion among information war experts The I-Bomb broadcast by the B.B.C., provides another excellent way to increase one's understanding of the field. As much of the thinking about information warfare is derived from Alvin Toffler's conceptualization of the Digital Revolution, a familiarity with this concept is necessary to fully understand the thinking that has gone into plans regarding information warfare. [334 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=1480529&hilit=BRAINWASHING> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&1501464 Score: 80 Subject: Re: Turks