Field Manual FM 3-13 (FM 100-6) Information Operations: Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures November 2003 (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Information is an element of combat power. Commanders conduct informationoperations (IO) to apply it. Focused IO—synchronized with effective informationmanagement and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance— enable commanders to gain and maintain information superiority. IO is a prime means for achieving information superiority. Users of FM 3-13 must be familiar with the military decision making processestablished in FM 5-0, Army Planning and Orders Production; the operationsprocess, established in FM 3-0, Operations; and commander’s visualization,described in FM 6-0, Mission Command: Command and Control of ArmyForces.As the Army’s key integrating manual for IO, this manual prescribes IO doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). It also establishes doctrine and TTP for the IO elements of operations security and military deception. This manual implements joint IO doctrine established in JP 3-13, Joint Doctrine for Information Operations; JP 3-54, Joint Doctrine for OperationsSecurity; and JP 3-58, Joint Doctrine for Military Deception.This manual establishes the following as the definition of IO used by Armyforces: Information operations is the employment of the core capabilitiesof electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to affect or defend information and information systems, and to influence decision making. This definition supersedes the definition of IO in FM 3-0. It is consistent with joint initiatives.The publication addresses IO doctrine in Part I and TTP in Part II. Part Ialso establishes Army operations security (OPSEC) and military deceptiondoctrine.