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Information Warfare?: The Case for an Asian Perspective on Information Operations.
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Armed Forces & Society (0095327X) . Oct2014, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p599-624. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- While information warfare (IW) has been treated by its foremost western proponents as a strategic revolution, the reasons for such a claim are actually rather weak if one considers how non-western approaches to the informational components of warfare have put forth their positions within a multidimensional context of strategy. This article ventures an Asian perspective that can potentially offer a more nuanced contribution to the study of IW. This article will pan out by first critically analyzing the predominantly American interpretation of IW as a set of five characteristics that can be contrasted to an Asian rival. Subsequently, we will elaborate a list of features likely to characterize a generic Asian IW approach, which I will argue, is more appropriately termed information operations (IO). These Asian IO features will be teased out through a reading of Sun Tzu, Mao Zedong, and Vo Nguyen Giap. An Asian IO approach will not distinguish wartime and peacetime applications, and neither will it place a premium on liberal democratic ideology as a basis for information superiority. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0095327X
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Armed Forces & Society (0095327X)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97931835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X13483444