Byting BackA-Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents RAND Counterinsurgency StudyA-Volume 1

• Main Author: Libicki, Martin C. (auth)
• Other Authors: Gompert, David C. (auth), Frelinger, David R. (auth), Smith, Raymond (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2007
• Subjects: Computer security; Warfare & defence; Political Science; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government a...