Description: In the "information age", information systems mayserve as both weapons and targets. Although the media have paid agood deal of attention to information warfare, most treatments sofar are overly broad and without analytical foundations. In thisbook Gregory Rattray offers a comprehensive analysis of strategicinformation warfare waged via digital means as a distinct concernfor the United States and its allies.

Rattray begins by analyzingsalient features of information infrastructures and distinguishingstrategic information warfare from other types of information-basedcompetition, such as financial crime and economic espionage. Hethen establishes a conceptual framework for the successful conductof strategic warfare in general, and of strategic informationwarfare in particular. Taking a historical perspective, he examinesU.S. efforts to develop air bombardment capabilities in the periodbetween World Wars I and II and compares them to U.S. efforts inthe 1990s to develop the capability to conduct strategicinformation warfare. He concludes with recommendations forstrengthening U.S. strategic information warfare defenses

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