The exercise methodology, known by the label "The Day After. Involving senior members of the national security community as well as representatives from national security-related telecommunications and information systems industries, the exercises led participants through a challenging hypothetical IW crisis involving a major regional political-military contingency. To accomplish this purpose, RAND conducted an exercise-based framing and analysis of what we came to call the "strategic information warfare" problem. In response to this situation and these uncertainties, in January 1995 the Secretary of Defense formed the IW Executive Board to facilitate "the development and achievement of national information warfare goals." In support of this effort, RAND was asked to provide and exercise an analytic framework for identifying key IW issues, exploring their consequences and highlighting starting points for IW-related policy development-looking to help develop a sustainable national consensus on an overall U.S. society that fundamentally changes the future character of warfare? Will IW be a new but subordinate facet of warfare in which the United States and its allies readily overcome their own potential cyberspace vulnerabilities and gain and sustain whatever tactical and strategic military advantages that might be available in this arena? Or will the changes in conflict wrought by the ongoing information revolution be so rapid and profound that the net result is a new and grave threat to traditional military operations and U.S. The end result and implications of these ongoing changes for international and other forms of conflict are highly uncertain, befitting a subject that is this new and dynamic. adversaries (and allies) are also looking to exploit the evolving global information infrastructure and associated technologies for military purposes. At the same time, current and potential U.S. society as a whole, is moving rapidly to take advantage of the new opportunities presented by these changes. The source of both the interest and the imprecision in this field is the so-called information revolution-led by the ongoing rapid evolution of cyberspace, microcomputers, and associated information technologies. Information warfare (IW) represents a rapidly evolving and, as yet, imprecisely defined field of growing interest for defense planners and policymakers. William Perry, Secretary of Defense Information Warfare and the Changing Face of War are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. We live in an age that is driven by information.
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