INFORMATION OPERATIONS

ACSC Research Seminar Topic

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September 2003

Compiled by Stephen B.T. Chun
Bibliographer, Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL


ACSC topic description: Analyze and study the current computer network defense and computer network attack policies, operations and present and future capabilities?  What are the legal ramifications to conducting CND and CNA operations in the CONUS and overseas and in space?

Contents

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Internet Resources


Federation of American Scientists. Information Warfare and Information Security on the Web. July 2, 2003.
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/wwwinfo.html
"A selective guide to information warfare resources on the Web, as well as a directory of points of entry to related resources."

Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare. March 12, 2003.
Available online at: http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html
"The purpose of the IASIW is to facilitate an understanding of information warfare with reference to both military and civilian life." Provides links to over 900 sites and publications.

The Terrorism Research Center. June 11, 2003.
Available online at: http://www.terrorism.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=&topic=8
A collection of 8 documents related to information warfare including:
"Unrestricted Warfare" by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui;
"Information Operations, Deterrence, and the Use of Force" by Roger W. Barnett.

United States. Air Force. Information Operations. August 5, 1998. (Air Force doctrine document 2-5).
Available online at: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/afd2_5.pdf


Books



Berkowitz, Bruce. The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century. New York, Free Press, 2003. 257 p.
Book call no.: 355.02 B513n

Cyberwarfare: Terror at a Click, edited by John V. Blane.  Huntington, NY, Novinka Books, 2001. 82 p.
Book call no.: 005.8 C9941

Cordesman, Anthony H. and Cordesman, Justin G. Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland. Westport, CT, Praeger, 2002. 189 p.
Book call no.: 005.8 C794c

Hall, Wayne Michael. Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2003. 219 p.
Book call no.: 355.02 H181s

Metz, Steven. Armed Conflict in the 21st Century: The Information Revolution and Post-modern Warfare. Carlisle Barracks, PA, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2000. 113 p.
Also available online at: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/2000/conflict/conflict.htm
Book call no.: 355.033073 M596a

O'Brien, Gregory John. The International Legal Limitations on Information Warfare. Washington, Law School, George Washington University, 1998. 83 p. (Thesis, George Washington University, 1998)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA365127
Book call no.: 341.63 O134i

Rattray, Gregory J. Strategic Information Warfare: Challenges for the United States. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1998. 704 p. (Thesis (Ph. D.)--Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,1998)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA346502
Book call no.: 355.343 R237s

Rattray, Gregory J. Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2001. 517 p.
Book call no.: 355.343 R237sa

Nontraditional Warfare: Twenty-First-Century Threats and Responses, edited by William R. Schilling.  Washington, Brassey's, 2002. 347 p.
Information Systems Survivability in Nontraditional Warfare Operations, by Michael D. McDonnell and Terry L. Sayers, pp 29-41.
Book call no.: 355.02 N814

Shulman, Mark Russell. Legal Constraints on Information Warfare. Maxwell AFB, AL, Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, Air University, 1999. 343 p. (Occasional paper, no. 7)
Also available online at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/csat7.pdf
Book call no.: 355.343 S386L

United States. Dept. of the Air Force. Cornerstones of Information Warfare. Washington, 1995. 13 p.
Also available online at: http://www.af.mil/lib/corner.html
Book call no.: 355.3432 C815


Documents


Ellis, Bryan W. The International Legal Implications and Limitations of Information Warfare: What Are Our Options?  Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 2001. 22 p. (Strategy research project)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA389043
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537 E47i

Fox, Scott M. Relationships Between Space and Information Operations: A Focus on the Effects. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College, 2001. 36 p. (Research report)
Doc. call no.: M-U 43122 F794r

Griffith, James L. United States Air Force Information Operations Doctrine: Is It Relevant? Fort Leavenworth, KS, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2000. 111 p. (Thesis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2000)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA383817
Doc. call no.: M-U 42022 G853u

Information Assurance: Legal, Regulatory, Policy and Organizational Considerations. 4th ed. Washington, Joint Staff, 1999. 1 vol.
Also available online at: http://www.dtic.mil/jcs/j6/j6k/ia.pdf
Doc. call no.: M-U 42904-91a 1999 Aug 25

Morthland, Samuel P. Information Operations: The Need for a National Strategy. Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. 71 p. (Thesis)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA405812
Doc. call no.: M-U 42525 M8871i

Tibbetts, Patrick S. Terrorist Use of the Internet and Related Information Technologies. Fort Leavenworth, KS, School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College, 2002. 66 p. (Monograph)
Offensive Information Operations, pp 25-32.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA403802
Doc. call no.: M-U 42022-2 T552t

United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of General Counsel. An Assessment of International Legal Issues in Information Operations. Washington, 1999. 50 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 42215-175

United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Doctrine for Information Operations. Washington, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1998. 1 vol. (Joint pub, no.3-13)
Also available online at: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp3_13.pdf
Doc. call no.: M-U 40592 no.3-13 (1998 Oct 9)

Washington, Ollie, Jr. The Legal and Ethical Implications of Information Operations. Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 2001. 20 p. (Strategy research project)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA390619
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537 W3191L

Williamson, Jennie M. Information Operations: Computer Network Attack in the 21st Century. Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, 2002. 22 p. (Strategy research project)
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA402018
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537 W731i  


Periodicals


Bayles, William J. The Ethics of Computer Network Attack. Parameters 31:44-58 Spring 2001.
Bayles examines the ethics associated with attacks in cyberspace and advocates the development of a strategy and doctrine that will permit the US to police this dimension as well as defend national interests. He attempts to adjudicate between factions arguing that computer network attack does not even qualify as a use of force and those believing such actions equate to attacks with weapons of mass destruction (editor).
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4269065&db=aph

Berkowitz, Bruce. Information Warfare: Time to Prepare. Issues in Science and Technology 17:37-44 Winter 2000-2001.
Also available online at: http://www.nap.edu/issues/17.2/berkowitz.htm

Berkowitz, Bruce D. War Logs On; Girding America for Computer Combat. Foreign Affairs 79:8-12 May-June 2000.
"In Kosovo, America stumbled into the age of computer warfare. Now Washington must think hard about how to attack its foes' electronic networks and defend its own."
"Should the United States conduct computer war? Should certain targets be off-limits? Who should be responsible for taking warfare on-line? Is America prepared? These questions were quietly debated during the last decade within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and intelligence community. But without answers, the United States could fall behind in a critical new dimension of military power. Moreover, the broad issues of computer warfare must be debated openly, because U.S. policy will depend heavily on public and industry support..."
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3008890&db=aph

Castelli, Christopher J. DOD And Thailand Run Classified 'Eligible Receiver' Info-War Exercise. Current News Early Bird Supplement, 2 p, October 28, 2002.
"Today Pacific Command and Thailand expect to conclude a classified counterterrorism and information warfare exercise called 'Eligible Receiver,' a new iteration of the war game that spooked the Pentagon in 1997 by revealing dangerous vulnerabilities in U.S. military information systems.
"The Pentagon did not publicly announce this month's exercise. But Eligible Receiver is expected to run from Oct. 18 to Oct. 28, a Joint Staff spokeswoman told Inside the Navy. The Justice Department, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department are all involved, she said. An NSA spokesman had no comment."
Reprinted from Inside the Navy, p1, October 28, 2003.

Fisher, Dennis. The High-Tech War; U.S. Has Cyber-war Tools, Expertise But Is Unlikely To Use Them in Iraq Conflict. eWeek 20:1+ March 31, 2003.
"Despite months of speculation and discussion about the U.S. government's cyber-warfare capabilities, security and defense experts say there is little chance the military will use such weapons in the war against Iraq. While government agents have the tools and expertise to launch crippling attacks on Iraqi computer networks, telecommunications systems and other vital pieces of the country's infrastructure, U.S. officials said they believe the negative ramifications of such an attack outweigh the benefits."
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9422654&db=aph

Fulghum, David A. Rethinking Iraq: As Combat Preparations Ramp Up, USAF Is Redefining the Boundaries of Computer Attack. Aviation Week & Space Technology 158:33 March 3, 2003.
"There is a policy split in the Pentagon over information warfare, driven partly by calculations that attacking key civilian Iraqi computer systems might damage banking in France and, possibly, the U.K. as well."
"The U.S. military, led by some war-fighting factions in the Air Force, say the effects of computer network attack need to be studied more closely."
"The services are still trying to define information operations/warfare and stake out their place in the new discipline..."
"The topic of defining the warfighter's place in the mix surfaced during a February Corona meeting of the Air Force's most senior leaders and at an air warfare symposium in Florida."
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9370900&db=aph

Fulghum, David A. and Barrie, Douglas. Cracks in the Net: Foes of the West Look for Chinks in Its Technological Armor. Aviation Week & Space Technology 158:52+ June 30, 2003.
"Western leaders are aware that network-centric operations provide their military forces with massive advantages over those who don't have the capability, but their enemies also know that to have any chance at success in war they must disrupt, tap into, or destroy confidence in those networks. Iraq War 2003 revealed at least one tool that would likely be used in such attacks, GPS jamming."
"The war also refined another concern: small, pointed invasions of networks that could cast doubt on network data, even if a computer network attack were unsuccessful. Aerospace industry and defense officials from several nations say that the potential for attack of these military networks, and key technologies that support them, is great enough to launch new businesses dedicated to countering these emerging threats."
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=10202407&db=aph

Fulghum, David A. and Barrie, Douglas. War Preparations Reveal Problems. Aviation Week & Space Technology 157:29-30 December 9, 2002.
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=8859216&db=aph

Kresa, Kent. Warfare in 2003 and beyond: Networked Operations and the Growing Role of Military Space. Vital Speeches of the Day 69:290-293 March 1, 2003.
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9398159&db=aph

Reverse-Fire? Armed Forces Journal International 138:44 September 2000.
Reports that United States military forces have been unable to initiate a credible response to the threat posed by the use of computers as weapons. U.S. Space Command's assumption of the Computer Network Attack missions; Computer network defense; Need to provide maximum protection against attacks.
Also available online at: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3568573&db=aph

Schofield, Peter. Future Warfare in the Information Age. Australian Defence Force Journal No.153:18-22 March-April 2002.
"The aim of this article is to describe possible future warfare in the information age..."

Seffers, George I. Information Operations Go on the Offensive. Air Force Times 59:30 November 23, 1998.
Details the doctrine for conducting computer warfare adopted by the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff. Coverage of the documents on computer network attacks; Terminology used in the doctrine papers; Issues on information operations.

White, Rick and Sclavos, Stratton. Targeting Our Computers. Current News Early Bird, pp 36-37, August 15, 2003.
Reprinted from: Washington Post, p A27, August 15, 2003.
Also available online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60807-2003Aug14.html

Wingfield, Thomas C. Legal Aspects of Offensive Information Operations in Space. Journal of Legal Studies 9:121-145 1998-1999.
Also available online at: http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfl/documents/wingfield.doc

 


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