An Argument for Establishing a National Security Council Interagency Information Warfare Directorate: Part II: Globalisation, Diffusion, and Weaponisation of Information, and the Fragility of Conventional Warfare

An Argument for Establishing a National Security Council Interagency Information Warfare Directorate: Part II: Globalisation, Diffusion, and Weaponisation of Information, and the Fragility of Conventional Warfare

This article expands upon the previous article by examining the efficacy of Conventional Warfare (CW in a Non-Conventional Warfare (NCW environment. In particular, it attempts to characterise the relationship between globalisation and diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT, in...

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Published in:Journal of information warfare 2020-01, Vol.19 (2), p.96-107
Main Author: Wilcox, Pete
Format: Article
Language:eng
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Summary:This article expands upon the previous article by examining the efficacy of Conventional Warfare (CW in a Non-Conventional Warfare (NCW environment. In particular, it attempts to characterise the relationship between globalisation and diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT, in relation to its antifragility in NCW settings. More broadly, it argues that in an information-rich environment, characterised by advanced ICTs, adversaries now have the means to circumvent CW superiority and to influence policy asymmetrically. This article concludes that ICTs may align more appropriately with an NCW paradigm rather than the ostensible CW paradigm embraced by the West.
ISSN:1445-3312
1445-3347