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PART THREE: APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES IN PEACE AND
WAR
Part Three is composed of four chapters. They examine the impact,
both potential and actual, of cyber technologies on military conflicts and
peacekeeping operations.
Chapter Seven examines how virtual processes can prevent or resolve
conflict between participants. The chapter also describes how virtual processes
were used to quell the fighting in Bosnia and how these processes offer hope as
a crisis management, preemptive, or preventive means to stop conflict from
occurring or to limit its spread.
Chapter Eight examines the concept of information superiority as it
applied to the NATO intervention in Kosovo in March of 1999. The conclusion
drawn by the author is that even with total information superiority, NATO still
was fooled by the Serbian armed forces on several occasions. This indicates
that there is still much tension between IO theory and the practice of IO in the
field.
Chapter Nine explores the United Nation’s interest in exploiting cyberbased
technologies to help the peacekeeper maintain law and order. In effect,
peacekeepers are transforming into “policekeepers.” They must confront unruly
mobs and criminal elements as well as maintain the peace. Cyber technologies
can greatly assist their efforts.
Chapter Ten outlines how Russia applied its IW concept in the second
Russian-Chechen conflict (1999 and still ongoing as this chapter goes to print
in the fall of 2005). A short summary of the Chechen application of the
information-psychological aspect of IW is included. Students of military history
can learn much about the low-intensity IW environment from a study of the
experiences of both sides in this conflict.
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