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Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often ignored if it conflicted with a commander's own view. Handel examines the ways in which this situation has improved and argues that co-operation between the intelligence adviser and the military decision maker is vital.

MILITARY OPERATIONS RESEARCH: Quantitative Decision Making -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN DEFENSE -- 2 SEARCH, DETECTION AND DAMAGE ASSESSMENT -- 3 SIMULATION OF MILITARY SYSTEMS -- 4 WAR GAMES -- 5 COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS -- 6 OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS -- 7 HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION -- 8 THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS -- 9 HOMOGENEOUS COMBAT MODELS -- 10 HETEROGENEOUS COMBAT MODELS -- 11 THREAT ASSESSMENT : STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSES -- 12 ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIC STABILITY ISSUES -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.

A comprehensive analysis of strategic information warfare waged via digital means as a distinct concern for the United States and its allies. In the "information age," information systems may serve as both weapons and targets. Although the media has paid a good deal of attention to information warfare, most treatments so far are overly broad and without analytical foundations. In this book Gregory Rattray offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic information warfare waged via digital means as a distinct concern for the United States and its allies. Rattray begins by analyzing salient features of information infrastructures and distinguishing strategic information warfare from other types of information-based competition, such as financial crime and economic espionage. He then establishes a conceptual framework for the successful conduct of strategic warfare in general, and of strategic information warfare in particular. Taking a historical perspective, he examines U.S. efforts to develop air bombardment capabilities in the period between World Wars I and II and compares them to U.S. efforts in the 1990s to develop the capability to conduct strategic information warfare. He concludes with recommendations for strengthening U.S. strategic information warfare defenses.

"A collection of essays by a diverse group of scholars, The Politics of Cyberspace tackles the most important themes tied to the emergence of cyber-space - inequalities of access, the use of the Web by mainstream political parties, the challenge to the First Amendment, the possibility that the Web may foster new understandings of gender, and the need for progressive intellectuals to embrace and utilize the internet in their political struggles."--Jacket