Information Warfare

Daniel Ventre is an engineer for CNRS, a researcher for CESDIP (Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales), and in charge of courses at Télécom ParisTech and at the ESSEC Business School. He is the author of a number of articles and works, in France and abroad, on the themes of cyberwar, information warfare, cyberconflict, cybersecurity and cyberdefense.

• Introduction ixChapter 1. The United States 11.1. Information warfare in the 1990s 11.1.1. Points of view from security experts 11.1.2. US Air Force Doctrine: AFDD 2-5 (1998) 71.1.3. The doctrine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee: JP 3-13 (1998) 101.1.4. Components of information warfare 141.2. Information warfare in the 2000s 231.2.1. Dictionary of the Department of Defense 231.2.2. US Air Force: AFDD 2-5 (2005) and AFPD 10-7 (2006) 241.2.3. The doctrine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee: JP 3-13 (2006) 261.3. Information warfare in the 2010s 281.4. Important concepts and reflections 431.4.1. Information operations 441.4.2. Information superiority 511.4.3. The “value” of information 621.4.4. Information system 651.4.5. Command and control warfare: C2W 661.4.6. Effect-based operations (EBOs) 681.4.7. The OODA loop 691.4.8. RMA 701.4.9. C4ISR 721.4.10. Network centric warfare (NCW) 731.4.11. ISR: intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance 741.4.12. Cyberwar 751.4.13. Netwar 89Chapter 2. China 912.1. Significant publications 912.2. Strategic and doctrinal thinking about information warfare. Genesis 962.2.1. General Wang Pufeng: one of the pioneers 972.2.2. Wang Baocun and Li Fei 1002.2.3. Wei Jincheng 1042.2.4. Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui: unrestricted warfare 1052.2.5. General Dai Qingmin and Wang Baocun 1112.2.6. General Niu Li, Colonel Li Jiangzhou and Major Xu Dehui 1142.2.7. 2004 White Paper on national defense 1152.3. Recent policies and strategies on information and cyber security 1172.3.1. The Science of Military Strategy 2013 1182.3.2. Defense White Paper 2013 1182.3.3 Sino-Russian cybersecurity agreement 2015 1192.3.4. PLA Daily editorial on 20 May 2015 1212.3.5. Defense White Paper of 26 May 2015 1222.3.6. The national cybersecurity bill of July 2015 1252.4. Reflections 1252.4.1. The American perspective on Chinese information warfare, modernization and informatization of the PLA 1252.4.2. Evolution of analyses and discourse about Chinese strategy 1632.4.3. China as a “victim” 1722.4.4. The strategy of active defense 173Chapter 3. Russia 1773.1. Military doctrines and national security strategies 1803.2. Information warfare in practice 1853.2.1. Cyber attacks against Estonia. Who is the culprit? 1863.2.2. The Russia–Georgia conflict 1943.2.3. Ukraine 2143.3. Comments 2203.3.1. Characteristics of the Russian idea of information warfare 2203.3.2. Aggressiveness 2223.3.3. Type of Cold War 2233.3.4. Challenges, objectives and targets 2243.3.5. Psychological information warfare 2293.3.6. Players of information warfare 2333.3.7. Hybrid warfare and information warfare 2363.3.8. Information warfare: what is new… 240Chapter 4. Concepts and Theories: Discussions 2474.1. Doctrines 2474.2. Information warfare: definitions, models 2564.2.1. The information environment 2574.2.2. Definitions and models for information warfare 2614.3. Information warfare or data warfare? 2814.3.1. Defining data 2844.3.2. Some theories about data 2894.3.3. Visualization 2964.3.4. Data warfare? 306Conclusion 325Index 329