Search: cyber warfare center, structure

Strategic Cybercom is intended to integrate and coordinate DOD cyber defenses that previously were based in the individual military services.  Led by Army Gen. Keith Alexander, Cybercom also oversees offensive cyber capabilities, and that involves developing weapons and the doctrine that governs when and how those weapons can be used. When he took command of …

Weak Signals: DoD Information Operations First Steps

Navy Intel Chief: Information Dominance Must Balance Firepower By Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service, 6 January 2011 WASHINGTON (NNS) — “Information as warfare” requires operational commanders to employ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to dominate the information realm even as they direct combat actions, the Navy’s senior intelligence officer said Jan. 5. Vice Adm. David …

Review (Guest): The Scientific Way of Warfare–: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity

Antoine J. Bousquet (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Real Military Science, November 12, 2010 ByRetired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) This book is an excellent description of the application of scientific theories primarily from the fields of mathematics and physics to military theory and practice. Bousquet’s approach is …

Handbook: Bullets and Blogs Information Operations

Invite your attention to attached — contains a couple of interesting observations about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): “…open source intelligence — catapulting it to primary place for new adversaries and increasingly for the U.S. military — and also rapid organizational learning and assembly of capabilities…”  [page 9] “…There are strong indications that Hezbollah made significant …

Event: 27-28 Jan 2010 London UK CyberWarfare 2010

Key highlights for the Cyber Warfare 2010 programme include: Insights into the evolving cyber threats to national security and information systems and evaluation of solutions to mitigate the threat from international military cyber commands Analysis of current and future legal issues political pressures and challenges surrounding Cyber Warfare attacks and appropriate national cyber space activity …

Search: InfoOps (Information Operations (IO))

Search: The Future of OSINT is M4IS2 Search: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield Reference: Information Operations (IO) Newsletters Reference: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report on Information Operations (IO), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Cyberwar: Capabilities and Related Policy Issues Reference: Chinese Information Warfare