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>>9025226 Col. Richard Szafranski, “A Theory of Information Warfare: Preparing for 2020,” 1995. Unclassified.
great info here... we are in this fight...
Employment of an information warfare campaign at the strategic level......
Because an information warfare campaign at the strategic level aims to subdue hostile will by affecting the knowledge and beliefs of the adversary, it cannot discriminate between combatants and non-combatants.....
A successful information warfare campaign interposes a false reality on the human target....
Determining the morality of an information warfare campaign at the strategic level...
The interposition of a false reality ultimately may be as harmful and inhumane as wanton destruction of crops..
To unhinge a non-combatant from reality, especially when the effects cannot be known or controlled, may be no less wrongful than to force another into starvation or cannibalism.