Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
SRI Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
The paper investigates the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) approach – understood here as the reception, incorporation and operational employment – to military information operations (IO), from 1990 to 2012. The paper identifies key characteristics of the ADF’s approach to IO, and proposes explanatory factors to account for the specific form the ADF’s approach to IO has been manifested. The paper concludes with predictions regarding the future form of IO within the ADF, in the context of the increasing significance of social media, the upcoming 2013 Defence White Paper (WP13) and the US ‘pivot’ to the Asia-Pacific region. The paper is based in-progress doctoral research, and knowledge with respect to IO during his service in the Australian Army.
DOI
10.4225/75/57a843b1befb1
Comments
13th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, Novotel Langley Hotel, Perth, Western Australia, 3rd-5th December, 2012