Cover -- Information Warfare -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The United States -- 1.1 Information warfare in the 1990s -- 1.1.1. Points of view from security experts -- 1.1.2. US Air Force doctrine: AFDD 2-5 (1998) -- 1.1.3. The doctrine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee: JP 3-13 (1998) -- 1.1.4. Components of information warfare -- 1.2. Information warfare in the 2000s -- 1.2.1. Dictionary of the Department of Defense -- 1.2.2. US Air Force: AFDD 2-5 (2005) and AFPD 10-7 (2006) -- 1.2.3. The doctrine of the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee: JP 3-13 (2006) -- 1.3. Other important concepts and reflections -- 1.3.1. Cyberspace and superiority of information -- 1.3.2. The "value" of information -- 1.3.3. Information system -- 1.3.4. Command and control warfare: C2W -- 1.3.5. Effect-Based Operations (EBOs) -- 1.3.6. Information-in-warfare -- 1.3.7. The OODA loop -- 1.3.8. Fourth generation warfare -- 1.3.9. Noosphere -- 1.3.10. RMA -- 1.3.11. C4ISR -- 1.3.12. Network centric warfare (NCW) -- 1.3.13. ISR: intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance -- 1.3.14. Cyberwar -- 1.3.15. Netwar -- 1.3.16. Spin doctoring -- 1.3.17. Intelligence -- 1.3.18. Information operations -- 1.4. Loss of information control -- 1.5. American concerns -- Chapter 2. China -- 2.1. The concept of "information warfare": a genesis -- 2.1.1. General Wang Pufeng: one of the pioneers -- 2.1.2. Colonel Wang Baocun -- 2.1.3. Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui: out of bounds war -- 2.1.4. General Dai Qingmin and Wang Baocun -- 2.1.5. General Niu Li, Colonel Li Jiangzhou and Major Xu Dehui -- 2.1.6. 2004 white book on national defense -- 2.1.7. Sun Tzu and information warfare -- 2.1.8. How to implement the theories.

2.2. The American perspective on Chinese information warfare, modernization and informatization of the PLA -- 2.2.1. Interpretation problems -- 2.2.2. The impenetrability of China -- 2.2.3. Information warfare -- 2.2.4. Why is China intensifying the modernization of its armies? -- 2.2.5. Technologies for army modernization -- 2.2.6. In search of interpretations: the concept of "shashoujian" -- 2.2.7. 2008 DoD report concerning Chinese military power -- 2.3. Relations between Beijing and Taipei -- 2.3.1. The assassin's mace against the strategy of the scorpion -- 2.3.2. Cyber-attacks against Taiwan: psychological effects -- 2.3.3. Taiwan and information warfare -- Chapter 3. India -- 3.1. Entry into information society -- 3.1.1. Has India entered the age of information? -- 3.1.2. Security of information systems -- 3.2. Information warfare: development and adoption of the doctrine -- 3.2.1. The military doctrine -- 3.2.2. Official parties -- 3.2.3. Adoption of the information warfare doctrine -- 3.3. Understanding attacks against Indian cyberspace -- 3.3.1. Indian site defacements: statistics -- 3.3.2. Cyber crime or acts of aggression/acts of war? -- 3.4. Indian hackers -- Chapter 4. Japan -- 4.1. Japanese cyberspace flaws -- 4.1.1. Theft of defense classified data -- 4.1.2. Loss/theft of sensitive or confidential data -- 4.2. The challenges of cyberspace security -- 4.2.1. Relations between civilian and the military worlds -- 4.2.2. Cyber crime or act of information warfare? -- 4.2.3. Optimal security? -- 4.2.4. The challenges of non-traditional security -- 4.3. Information warfare: a specific Japanese approach? -- Chapter 5. Russia -- 5.1. Estonia-Russia: information warfare? -- 5.1.1. Reconstitution of facts -- 5.2. Doctrines and components of the "information warfare" concept -- 5.2.1. The development of the Russian military.

5.2.2. Intellectual information warfare -- 5.2.3. Control of an individual's physical dimensions -- 5.3. Potential players of information warfare -- 5.3.1. Government agencies -- 5.3.2. The military -- 5.3.3. Hackers -- 5.4. The Russia-Georgia conflict: new information warfare? -- 5.4.1. Operations in Russian and Georgian cyberspace -- 5.4.2. The introduction of "cyberwar" and "information warfare" in the conflict -- 5.4.3. Comments on "cyber attacks" -- 5.4.4. Isolated cyber attacks or information warfare operations? -- 5.4.5. Formulating the right questions -- Chapter 6. Singapore -- 6.1. Regional and global economic ambition -- 6.2. Challenges to security -- 6.3. Cyberspace and national security -- 6.3.1. Protected computers -- 6.3.2. Terrorism -- 6.3.3. Internet content as a source of threat -- 6.3.4. Data-mining to help security -- 6.4. Singapore armed forces in the information age -- 6.4.1. Towards modernization of armies -- 6.4.2. IKC2: Singapore's version of network centric warfare -- 6.5. Players in information warfare -- 6.5.1. Defense sector agencies -- 6.5.2. Universities and defense -- 6.5.3. Training for information warfare -- 6.6. International cooperation and cyberspace protection -- Chapter 7. Identifying Aggressors and Acts of Aggression -- 7.1. Statistical data -- 7.1.1. China: CNCERT/CC reports -- 7.1.2. Hong Kong: HKCERT/CC report -- 7.1.3. Japan: JPCERT/CC reports -- 7.1.4. South Korea: KrCERT/CC 2005 report -- 7.2. Attacks against personal information and information warfare -- 7.2.1. Characteristics of attacks against personal information -- 7.2.2. Personal data in information warfare -- 7.2.3. Attacks against personal data as a method of aggression -- 7.3. Classification of CNA type aggressions -- 7.3.1. Problems and limitations of attacks -- 7.3.2. Methods of attacks.

7.3.3. being able to define the origin of attacks with accuracy? -- 7.4. The players in CNA type aggressions -- 7.4.1. The hacker -- 7.4.2. The sponsors -- 7.4.3. Targets -- 7.5. One weapon amongst others: the virus -- 7.6. Understanding the possible strategies of attackers -- 7.6.1. Use of information warfare -- 7.6.2. Stigmergy -- 7.6.3. Swarming -- 7.6.4. Open source models as a guerilla warfare model -- 7.6.5. Psychological maneuvers or how to lie on a grand scale -- 7.6.6. The role of Internet sites in information warfare -- 7.6.7. Using blogs? -- 7.6.8. Website defacement and semantic attacks -- 7.6.9. What is cyber terrorism? -- 7.6.10. Use of web applications by insurgents -- 7.6.11. Questioning the relations between political context and cyber attacks -- Chapter 8. An Information Warfare Law? -- 8.1. Warfare and the law -- 8.2. Engaging in and conducting a war -- 8.3. Protecting combatants and non combatants -- 8.4. The challenges of information warfare for international law -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Blank Page.