Information Warfare
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Information warfare (IW) is a mode of confrontation that uses the collection, manipulation, and dissemination of information to intervene in an adversary's perception and decision-making, securing strategic advantage. Its doctrine was systematized during the Cold War through the Soviet theory of reflexive control, and in the twenty-first century it has expanded into disinformation, propaganda, and psychological operations conducted through digital media and social platforms. In modern conflict, information warfare blurs the boundary between military engagement and peacetime political operations, aiming less at proving specific facts than at contaminating the information environment itself to maximize uncertainty.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) overview, definition, and history of information warfare as a military-strategic concept
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian/Soviet conceptual history, including Cold War origins and the distinction from psychological warfare
- understandingwar.org Soviet doctrinal origins of reflexive control and information warfare, developed decades before Russia's hybrid warfare in Ukraine
- lawfaremedia.org Iranian information operations tactics, including disinformation campaigns and the use of cyber-enabled influence operations as asymmetric retaliation