Abstract: If information technology trends continue and, more importantly, if
other countries begin to exploit these trends, the US focus on defeating
a cyberwar threat will have to evolve into a focus on defeating a broader
information warfare threat. It is far less plausible to imagine a cyber attack
campaign unaccompanied by other elements of information warfare—in
large part because almost all situations where cyber attacks are useful are
those which offer no good reason not to use other elements of information
warfare. Thus the various elements of information warfare should
increasingly be considered elements of a larger whole rather than separate
specialties that individually support kinetic military operations.
