Information warfare remains a nebulous subject, but this monograph offers one of the most interesting and revealing ways of thinking about it.

Future U.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing, rapid evolution of cyberspace--the global information infrastructure--and in particular by the growing dependence of the U.S. military and other national institutions and infrastructures on potentially vulnerable elements of the U.S. national information infrastructure. To examine these effects, the authors conducted a series of exercises employing a methodology known as the Day After ... in which participants are presented with an information warfare crisis scenario and asked to advise the president on possible responses. Participants included senior national security community members and representatives from security-related telecommunications and information-systems industries. The report synthesizes the exercise results and presents the instructions from the exercise materials in their entirety.

Chapter One:
What Is "Strategic Information Warfare?"

Chapter Two:
Methodology

Chapter Three:
The Changing Face of War

Chapter Four:
Defining Features of Strategic Information Warfare

Chapter Five:
Issues of Strategic Information Warfare

Chapter Six:
Conclusions

Additional Reading: Threats and Vulnerabilities

Appendix A:
Methodology

Appendix B:
Summary of Group Deliberations for Step Three

Appendix C:
Exercise

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