Sun Tzu And Information Warfare

Sun Tzu and Information WaoCare contains papers submitted by
authors in response to an open international research competition
sponsored by the Information Resources Management College,
National Defense University and funded by the National Defense
University Foundation. Papers published in this collection
include winners of the 1995 and 1996 competitions. The
purpose of the competition is to stimulate innovative thought on
the oft debated subject of information warfare (IW). (See the
back pages of this volume or http://www.ndu.edu for further
information regarding the purpose, eligibility, and evaluation
criteria of the Sun Tzu Award.)
As a discrete subject, information warfare has received
increasing attention from politicians, scientists, academics,
futurists, military strategists, warfighters, logisticians, and the
media. Much of this increased attention revolves around salient
issues including:
• definition of information warfare–establishing conceptual
and operational boundaries.
• legal environment for information age conflict
• doctrinal issues and force structure implications
• organizational implications–DOD, Federal and private
sector
• new environments for security affairs and conflict
• relationship with the l~evoludon in Military Affairs
(gMA)
• changing political and social milieus
• National Information Infrastructure (Nil) and
infrastructure security–implications for strategic vulnerability
• national policy guidance—the vacuum
• the defense planning process in the information age
• “mapping” cyberspace
• the impact of the information age on the intelligence
community
• historical evolution of IW
• non-linearity, complexity, and chaos theory
links to the information age.

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