First, what is the meaning of information warfare?

Information warfare is the term used to describe the use and management of information to obtain a competitive advantage over the enemy, a war of information may include information-gathering strategy, to ascertain the validity of existing information, the dissemination of propaganda or false information to foil the enemy or the people, reduce the quality of information available with the enemy and work to reduce the chances of the enemy to collect information.

Also: the use of information systems for the exploitation and destruction, destruction and disruption of its operations and the discount information is based on information and information systems and computer networks of its own, as well as to protect what we have all this from a discount; to achieve the first goal, and progress on the military and economic systems.

Is there a practical application of the concept of information wars and mechanisms of modern and to what extent?

The answer will not be comprehensive and profound as this requires time-consuming research and analysis ourselves, but a quick reference to the American-British war on Iraq and the war NATO Kosovo as good as they can provide information useful in reaching the answer, rather than to provide a full answer.

During the preparation of the U.S. campaign against terrorism (jihad), and weeks before the attack on Afghanistan, Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State: that this war will not be like others, it will be based on intelligence and information in the first place, President Bush then returned and repeated again during the preparations for the invasion of Iraq.

The case of Iraq

In the process of invasion and can then distinguish between two forms of information warfare, the first traditional tools have been recognized in the information wars, the pre-war aircraft entered the 100-fly zone in Iraq with the bombing of Iraqi sites, because Target also said some elements of the download customers behind the lines to take place and which is until the arrival of other forces during the invasion, as well as the payment of poll groups and elements of the intelligence of the Iraqis to obtain contact information and monitor the whereabouts of the Iraqi leadership and activity in the presidential palaces, and the conditions of Republican Guard forces, and the development of advanced sensors and services in so many places Alehioihp and strategy, in order to guide the aircraft to targets that have been identified for the destruction, has made this part of the great benefits of the information war to the Americans during the war and could be here to talk about three Examples of such benefits, namely:

Accelerate the first strike in the war, which began at the fourth and one third of the dawn Thursday, March 20, when detected by satellites and other means of intelligence, Saddam Hussein, and some members of the Iraqi leadership, they enter one of the shortcomings of the meeting, the resolution was guidance missile strike carried out over a period ranging between 20 and 25 minutes, a strike was not planned but was a result of information obtained by surprise.

Two, when the city of Baghdad and launched a counter attack on U.S. forces near Karbala, the satellite monitoring of action and the transfer of information to the information system of command and control, which suggested that leaders need to use the Air Force, Vantalegt allied aircraft attacked these forces, and was able to inflict heavy losses before they reach the ground forces and to engage with them.

Such as the attack on Baghdad, U.S. forces received information from satellites and intelligence agents is a vacuum on any of the defenses of Baghdad, and, accordingly, American forces decided to explore the special forces operations, where she toured in parts of Baghdad on April 5, 2003, then after that other operations of the force reconnaissance before U.S. troops entered Baghdad almost without resistance.

Section II: It was a special new tools of information wars which are aimed at information systems, computers, telecommunications and electricity networks, databases and systems, and in this regard was reported to the press before the war and preparations for the implementation of information attacks be launched with new tools to the U.S. Army of Iraq, the Iraqi army officers to receive communications systems orders for specific military movements, and moving those officers to implement the order, and found them in a trap-mail, led them to the Pentagon attacks, or information on the Iraqi Defense Radars paid in the traps to avoid false monitor the movements and make it wrong for U.S. bombers, or the operation of specific information systems that push Iraqis towards a less secure communications, and facilitate the operations of espionage penetration.

Others spoke of the U.S. military will benefit from the knowledge of information systems and computers used by the Russian Iraqis in attacks Informatics, and fiber optic cables made in China, which runs Iraq's air defenses may be hard to break, so the pirates of the U.S. military networks will work to change the situation if they succeeded in penetrating.

When U.S. forces moved toward Baghdad amid the storm of sand, there have been reports that there were soldiers sitting inside a tent in Kuwait and Washington, and the attacks are parallel to the Iraqi invasion of computer networks and shut down or stop the electricity networks, and to stop or the interception of communications or events bottlenecks to the radar, and other attacks included bombs, pulsed laser and microwave bombs hit computers across the whole of Iraq for paralyzed in silence and without blood.

After the start of the occupation and the Iraqi resistance (Jihad) developed new reports indicate that America started to apply some of the tools and tactics of war and the hunt for information to trace the leaders of Islamic Jihad, and control the movements of the Mujahideen in the streets, he pointed to the CNN report said that in Baghdad that elements of the fourth U.S. system has been put in the name of fighting systems, military leaders and the system carries the name of the Tactical Internet, which is able to follow-up of troops from positions of control of the Mujahideen and residential buildings and survey the streets and know their location by satellite images, with the rules of eight spy planes without pilots know the name of the shade used for the first time in Iraq.

Tend many of the experts is that it can not be sure that the Americans have launched attacks with modern computer in the invasion of Iraq as reported in previous reports, especially as the U.S. Defense Department has been totally silent for a long time to these reports, there was a formal one about in this regard, the words of Charles Owens, a spokesman for the U.S. military's Central Command headquarters in Qatar, which he said "I do not want to comment on the possibility of the use of electronic information and the bomb is only part of the operational plan for the war, and also refused to go into the possibility of an electronic war to disrupt Iraq's Internet networks, or control the infrastructure to control and stop the communication between the Iraqi leadership and its forces.

Kosovo status

During the campaign, NATO and Kosovo, which the Americans played a greater part of which was leaked news that the U.S. launched an attack in terms of information systems, electronic computers, the Serbian in the first practice of the War of electronic information across space, and the information leaked about the attack said it led to stop the main system in Yugoslavia, she did the computer systems for air defense, which had the mission to target NATO aircraft hit a rocket, and led to broadcast messages to deceive and mislead the Serb forces, in addition to targeting the main telephone network in order to pay the Serbian leadership in Belgrade to contact their troops through the mobile phone which is easy to penetrate the U.S. mission calls.

He also said the attack included the U.S. warplanes bombed power stations Serbian electronic bomb dubbed CP U 94, was a U.S. plane dropped an F-17, known as the ghost of Serbian power plants, 5, and the aim of this is to disable the bombs and military communications systems to interfere with the means to defend air bases and civilian infrastructure of public telephone networks and facilities for the production and distribution of electricity and gas, Americans are betting on the impact of electronic bang caused by a silent and some functions such services, including any potential to paralyze the army crushed morale.

The other hand, issued a warning in the beginning of the war, British intelligence officers that the snipers had targeted Serb computer services, computer and communications companies in the British water and electricity, in retaliation for Britain's participation in air raids, and that it might be easier on the Serbs that the attack vital facilities and services services and air traffic control, but there has been something of all this has not been confirmed to occur in public, either before or during the war.

Keep saying that in return for the wealth of available information on the use of information technology in the war, there is poverty and lack of clear information about the attacks made and the battles being waged purely information through information networks and communications, targeting systems and command and control, databases, computers and networks, as well as modern tools used in these wars, both in the collection and tracking of information or sabotage, and disabled, and still many experts believe these kinds of attacks or the recent fighting of the military secrets of nuclear bomb-like mystery in the early forties of the last century, and then did not reveal a clear manner on how to manage, use and level of effectiveness, and previously was just signs that the wars of the information that modern methods are implemented are very close.