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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS..................................................................................1
FOREWORD.....................................................................................................5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................7
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING OUR CYBER ENVIRONMENT ........11
CHAPTER ONE: ENGAGING CYBER OR INFORMATION
UBIQUITY?.....................................................................................................13
Information Age or Cyber Age? ....................................................................13
The Emergence of the Civilian and Military Cyber Battlefields.................19
Information Operations (IO) and the Military.............................................21
Unintended Consequences of Cyber Age Technologies ...............................28
CHAPTER TWO: AL QAEDA AND THE INTERNET: THE DANGER
OF “CYBERPLANNING” .............................................................................32
Introduction .....................................................................................................32
Terrorist Methodologies .................................................................................34
Conclusions ......................................................................................................44
CHAPTER THREE: CYBERINSURGENCY ............................................46
Introduction .....................................................................................................46
Context .............................................................................................................47
Adaptive Insurgent Organization and Doctrine...........................................49
Mobilizing the Masses.....................................................................................50
Potential and Actual Insurgent Tactics on the Internet...............................53
Conclusions ......................................................................................................56
PART TWO: TERMINOLOGY AND CONCEPTS ...................................59
CHAPTER FOUR: IS THE IW PARADIGM OUTDATED? A
DISCUSSION OF US IW THEORY .............................................................61
Introduction .....................................................................................................61
Terminology and the IO/IW Paradigm: The Early Decisions.....................62
Other Information-Related Terms ................................................................65
“Data-Processing Operations:” Another Way to Think about the
Information Age ..............................................................................................68
Conclusions ......................................................................................................72