Cyberwar 3.0: Human Factors in Information Operations and Future Conflict

iv, 309, [7] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. About the authors. Index. Colonel Campen served in the US Navy in WW II, participating in the capture of Saipan and Guam, and in the US Air Force in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He retired in 1975. Subsequently he managed the book publishing operations of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Fairfax, Virginia. Colonel Campen was a prolific writer and lecturer on information systems, intelligence and national security. His 1992 book about information and intelligence in the Persian Gulf War, The First Information War, was one of the earliest publications on the subject. His 1995 book Cyberwar: Security, Strategy and Conflicts in the Information Age was required reading at many military schools. His articles and essays on communications, computers, information systems, intelligence and national security appeared regularly defense journals. Conflict in the Information Age is about ideas, values, aspirations, fears and the struggle of people for identity. This book is about a journey into a new place that we have yet to define. It is offered by thinkers in the forefront of American and British government, academic, military, and private industry. Here are some of the issues examined: Is Infowar real? Who will defend cyberspace? What are Information Operations? Can and should the military patrol the information highway? What are the legal, ethical and moral issues? Will information decrease or add to the fog of war? Can we safely outsource national security? What did Kosovo teach us? How would Sun Tzu have employed information war? How real is the Insider Threat? What is the psychology of future war? Will technology be master or servant? Can perceptions be managed in peace, crisis and war? Who should protect critical infrastructures and how? What is the information content in National Security Strategy. …