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• Developing an information blockade or overloading to compel<br />

behavior.<br />

• Integrating all assets such as law, people, and technologies.<br />

• Reverting to a react-act mode due to its speed.<br />

• Offering precise information on a variety of issues for decision-makers.<br />

• Helping connect data perceptual systems.<br />

• Enabling nations to learn to manage or leverage consequences of<br />

actions.<br />

• Allowing smaller nations to dominate larger ones.<br />

These issues require intense doctrinal, policy, and legal review. IT can<br />

prevent conflict by manipulating, interrupting or interfering with information<br />

systems and infrastructures, areas where there are serious legal questions. IT<br />

needs to be regulated under such circumstances. IT remains a national issue. It<br />

is not a focal point for the UN, which remains inundated with more pressing<br />

issues. States must develop their own peace-support IT within international<br />

guidelines. But, the issue is crucial. Without such support, peace operations<br />

may indeed lose their effectiveness and ability to keep the peace. Give ITsupported<br />

policekeepers, not criminals and insurgents, a chance to succeed.<br />

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