Information Warfare

Information warfare is the use and management of information in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information, assurance(s) that one’s own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or disinformation to demoralize the enemy and the public, undermining the quality of opposing force information and denial of information-collection opportunities to opposing forces. Information warfare is closely linked to psychological warfare.

Declassified Documents

Relevant Documents

Information Warfare Technologies: Survey of Selected Civil Sector Activities, February 1996 [164  Pages, 5.51mb] – This document has been prepared to set forth the results of a technology survey requested by the Joint Staff pursuant to tasking from the Joint Warfare Capability Assessment (JWCA) Information Warfare Technology Subgroup.  The approach chosen to highlight the technologies is a collection of “Technology Overview” survey forms using a format specified by the Joint Staff. The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) selected 56 technologies that are briefly described with regard to their potential long-term usefulness to Information Warfare applications. A more complete evaluation of a subset of the most promising technologies is provided in parallel IDA Paper P-3157, Infomzation Warfare: Selected Long-Range Technology Applications.

Continue scrolling for more...

 Russian Views on Electronic and Information Warfare. Volume 1, December 1996 [82  Pages, 1.82MB] – In the early 1980s, the Soviet military was perhaps the first to argue that a new “revolution” was occurring in military affairs. Today the Russian military argues that precision-guided, non-nuclear, deep-strike weapons and the systems used to integrate them are revolutionizing all aspects of military art and force structure and elevating combat capabilities.

 Russian Views on Electronic and Information Warfare. Volume 2, December 1996 [365  Pages, 12.67MB]

Themes in Chinese Writings on Information Warfare [106 Pages, 6.5mb]

Follow The Black Vault on Social Media:

This post was published on February 24, 2015 6:25 am

John Greenewald

Recent Posts

The DoD Inspector General’s Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

This article was originally written in August 2024. However, additional document releases related to these…

July 15, 2025

Do Not Respond: Pentagon Staff Instructed to Ignore The Black Vault’s UAP Inquiry

The Department of Defense (DoD) has released 151 pages of internal records related to the…

July 15, 2025

U.S. Government Confirms Multiple Drone Incursions Over Pantex Nuclear Facility; Newly Released Documents Reveal Previously Unreported Security Events

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a series of previously undisclosed documents confirming…

July 12, 2025

Air Force Confirms Drone Swarms Over Wright-Patterson AFB Led to Airspace Shutdown; Videos and Reports Released

Newly released Air Force records confirm that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Ohio experienced…

July 11, 2025

Navy Withheld Nearly 500 Pages About UAP Video Release Decision, Records Show FOIA Pressure Drove Disclosure

Newly released documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the U.S.…

July 9, 2025

CIA Mishandles UFO Files Again: Intelligence on Soviet UFO Reports Lost Forever

The CIA’s history of losing or mismanaging UFO-related records continues with yet another example, this…

July 7, 2025