Download or read book Using the Targeting Process to Synchronize Information Operations at the Tactical Level written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army's new capstone doctrine, Field Manual (FM) 3-0, Operations, recognizes that information is a powerful weapon in the conduct of full-spectrum operations. Like other weapons, the effects of information must be synchronized with the effects of other systems to produce optimal results. Unfortunately, current U.S. Army doctrine does not provide a single coherent method for integrating the effects of maneuver, fires and information. This monograph seeks to remedy that flaw by analyzing the utility of the targeting process as a means of synchronizing information with the other elements of combat power at the tactical level. The decide-detect-deliver-assess (D3A) methodology of the targeting process is a useful conceptual tool for synchronizing effects on hostile forces. However, in practice the targeting process contains a bias towards lethal effects. With minor modifications, the targeting process could become a far more effective synchronization tool.
Download or read book Army Techniques Publication Atp 3 13 1 the Conduct of Information Operations October 2018 written by United States Government US Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-13.1 The Conduct of Information Operations October 2018, provides guidance on conducting information operations (IO) at tactical through strategic echelons and across operational phases. It is primarily intended for IO officers and planners or those assigned responsibilities for fulfilling IO duties. Secondarily, it is a useful primer for commanders, operations officers, intelligence officers, and other staff members who oversee, coordinate, or support IO planning, preparation, execution, and assessment. The principal audience for ATP 3-13.1 is all members of the Army Profession. Commanders and staffs of Army headquarters serving as joint task force or multinational headquarters should also refer to applicable joint or multinational doctrine concerning the range of military operations and joint or multinational forces. Trainers and educators throughout the Army will also use this publication. This manual provides Army leaders and information operations (IO) professionals with essential information necessary to integrate IO effectively into their unit's operation. It guides leaders to synchronize information-related capabilities (IRCs)-such as military information support operations, cyberspace electromagnetic activities, military deception, and operations security-to achieve effects in and through the information environment that support the commander's intent and concept of operations. The techniques discussed are deemed a way to conduct IO, not the way. Army professionals tailor the processes, tools, and techniques of IO to suit the mission, situation, and requirements of their commanders. ATP 3-13.1 contains seven chapters and one appendix. The following is a brief description of each: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the conduct of information operations. It discusses methods by which staffs at company through corps and above affect the information environment to a decisive advantage but with differing levels of expertise, supporting capabilities, and authorities. The chapter reviews a range of characteristics that distinguish the conduct of IO at higher versus lower levels. Chapter 2 provides a technique for analyzing, understanding, and visualizing the information environment. Because IO largely concerns creating effects in this environment, it is essential to understand it in all its complexity. Chapter 3 discusses determining the IRCs available to a unit and methods to request other capabilities, if required. The chapter also provides a brief synopsis of the various IRCs that commanders and staffs synchronize to create effects in the information environment. Chapters 4 examines techniques for integrating and synchronizing information-related capabilities. It begins by discussing commanders' responsibilities and transitions to discussing staffs' responsibilities. It also provides samples of a range of tools and products commonly employed by commanders and staffs to ensure the right effects are generated at the right place and time. Chapter 5 discusses intelligence support to IO, which is essential to its conduct. It also provides an overview of the ways that IO is integrated into the targeting process. Chapter 6 overviews assessment, starting with its framework and then discussing its focus, types, and components. It provides techniques for developing IO objectives, measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, and indicators, as well as for presenting assessment results to the commander. Chapter 7 examines the conduct of IO across operational phases and how these phases align with joint phasing. Appendix A provides an overview of IO in garrison and available joint and Army IO-related training.
Download or read book Countdown to Zero Day written by Kim Zetter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. “Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an engrossing whodunit.”—The Washington Post The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction—in this case, on an Iranian nuclear facility. In these pages, journalist Kim Zetter tells the whole story behind the world’s first cyberweapon, covering its genesis in the corridors of the White House and its effects in Iran—and telling the spectacular, unlikely tale of the security geeks who managed to unravel a top secret sabotage campaign years in the making. But Countdown to Zero Day also ranges beyond Stuxnet itself, exploring the history of cyberwarfare and its future, showing us what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by a Stuxnet-style attack, and ultimately, providing a portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war.
Download or read book Perceptions Are Reality written by Mark D Vertuli Editor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7, Perceptions Are Reality: Historical Case Studies of Information Operations in Large-Scale Combat Operations, is a collection of ten historical case studies from World War II through the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Ukraine. The eleventh and final chapter looks forward and explores the implications of the future information environment across the range of military operations during both competition and conflict. The case studies illustrate how militaries and subnational elements use information to gain a position of relative advantage during large-scale combat. The intent of this volume is to employ history to stimulate discussion and analysis of the implications of information operations in future LSCO by exploring past actions, recognizing and understanding successes and failures, and offering some lessons learned from each author's perspective.
Download or read book FM 3 13 Information Operations written by Department Of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information operations (IO) creates effects in and through the information environment. IO optimizes the information element of combat power and supports and enhances all other elements in order to gain an operational advantage over an enemy or adversary. These effects are intended to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp enemy or adversary decision making and everything that enables it, while enabling and protecting friendly decision making. Because IO's central focus is affecting decision making and, by extension, the will to fight, commanders personally ensure IO is integrated into operations from the start
Download or read book Army Techniques Publication Atp 3 60 Targeting May 2015 written by United States Government US Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-60 Targeting provides the techniques used for targeting by the United States Army. This manual has applicability in any theater of operations. The manual offers considerations for commanders and staffs in preparing for challenges with targeting, yet is flexible enough to adapt to a dynamic situation. ATP 3-60 will replace field manual (FM) 3-60, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for the Targeting Process. ATP 3-60 supports Army doctrine reference publications (ADRP) 3-0, and 3-09. The principal audience for ATP 3-60 is all members of the profession arms. Commanders and staffs of Army headquarters serving as joint task force or multinational headquarters should also refer to applicable joint or multinational doctrine concerning the range of military operations and joint or multinational forces. Trainers and educators throughout the Army will also use this publication. Chapter 1 discusses the targeting guidelines and philosophy associated with targeting techniques. Chapter 2 discusses targeting methodology relating to lethal and nonlethal effects. It discusses the D3A methodology and the integration and synchronization with maneuver forces. Chapter 3 discusses the corps and division targeting requirements and details the commanders and staff officers D3A methodology in support of tactical operations. Chapter 4 discusses brigade level targeting. Appendix A discusses find, fix, track, target, engage, and assesses functions relating to targeting techniques. Appendix B discusses find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, and disseminate functions relating to targeting techniques. Appendix C discusses target value analysis using criticality, accessibility, recuperability, vulnerability, effect, and recognizability (CARVER) tool. Appendix D provides example formats and targeting reports. Appendix E provides an updated targeting checklist using the D3A methodology. Appendix F provides targeting working group standard operating procedures samples. Appendix G provides common datum. Appendix H provides example of target numbering.
Download or read book Realizing the Potential of C4I written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a critical success factor in military affairs. These technology advances are drivers and enablers for the "nervous system" of the militaryâ€"its command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systemsâ€"to more effectively use the "muscle" side of the military. Authored by a committee of experts drawn equally from the military and commercial sectors, Realizing the Potential of C4I identifies three major areas as fundamental challenges to the full Department of Defense (DOD) exploitation of C4I technologyâ€"information systems security, interoperability, and various aspects of DOD process and culture. The book details principles by which to assess DOD efforts in these areas over the long term and provides specific, more immediately actionable recommendations. Although DOD is the focus of this book, the principles and issues presented are also relevant to interoperability, architecture, and security challenges faced by government as a whole and by large, complex public and private enterprises across the economy.
Download or read book INFO1 the Information Operations Capabilities SMARTbook written by Norman M. Wade and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, information operations (IO) has gone through a number of doctrinal evolutions, explained, in part, by the rapidly changing nature of information, its flow, processing, dissemination, impact and, in particular, its military employment. INFO1: The Information Operations & Capabilities SMARTbook examines the most current doctrinal references available and charts a path to emerging doctrine on information operations.
Download or read book Field Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nonlethal Information Operations Targeting Process written by Erin J. Gallogly-Staver and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Targeting Process written by U. S. Department of the Army and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Manual (FM) 3-60, The Targeting Process consists of five chapters and eight appendices to describe the Army's targeting process. Each chapter and appendix addresses how the decide, detect, deliver, and assess (D3A) methodology enhances the targeting process. The D3A is a methodology which optimizes the integration and synchronization of maneuver, fire support, and intelligence from task force to corps level operations. The D3A is described without tying it to specific hardware that will eventually become dated. The Army's targetingprocess consists of time tested techniques organized in a systematic framework.The FM 3-60 addresses how D3A methodology interfaces with the joint targeting cycle, military decisionmaking process (MDMP), and operations process. The joint targeting fundamental principles and doctrinal guidance are also presented in this publication. Successful targeting requires that the leadership team and their staff possess an understanding of the functions associated with the targeting process. The FM 3-60 builds on the collective knowledge, experience gained through recent operations, and numerous exercises. The manual is rooted in time tested principles and fundamentals, while accommodating force design, new technologies, and diverse threats to national security.
Download or read book Battalion Planning Process written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...complements 07-2 Brigade planning process special study and offers tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) ... that have been used by deployed warfighting units over the past three years... Situational awareness and understanding on complex operational environments encountered in stability operations and counterinsurgency are assessment driven... Integration of information operations and civil-military operations cannot be full achieved unless they are synchronized in the military decision making process"--P. [2] of cover.
Download or read book Brigade Combat Team written by U. S. Department of the Army and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field manual 3-90.6 provides the commander and staff of the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) and subordinate units with doctrine relevant to Army and joint operations. It applies to the Heavy Brigade Combat Team (HBCT), the Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), and the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT). The doctrine described in this manual applies across the full spectrum of military operations - offense, defense, stability or civil support. This publication: Provides BCTs with a framework in which they can operate as part of a division or independently as part of a joint task force; Provides doctrine for BCT commanders, staffs, and their subordinate commanders and leaders responsible for conducting major activities performed during operations; Serves as an authoritative reference for personnel who: Develop doctrine (fundamental principles and tactics, techniques, and procedures), materiel, and force structure; Develop institution and unit training; Develop unit tactical standard operating procedures for BCT operations.
Download or read book Handbook for Tactical Operations in the Information Environment written by Michael Schwille and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Early-career officers in tactical units must understand and operate in an increasingly complex information environment. Poor communication with command-level decisionmakers and errors in judgment can be costly in the face of sophisticated adversary capabilities and while operating among civilian populations. There are few opportunities for formal education and training to help officers prepare for operations in the information environment (OIE), and it can be difficult to know how to employ the tactics, techniques, and procedures of tactical-level maneuver-focused operations in support of OIE-related capabilities and activities. With its quick-reference format and series of illustrative vignettes, this handbook is intended to facilitate tactical problem-solving and increase officers' awareness of when and how they can contribute to the goals of OIE."--Back cover.
Download or read book Intelligence Support for Operations in the Information Environment written by Michael Schwille and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operations in the information environment require close coordination between intelligence and information operations personnel, but this does not often occur in practice. A review of these challenges highlighted a range of potential solutions.
Download or read book The Nonlethal Information Operations Targeting Process Duties Responsibilities and Procedures written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many articles, journals, and books describe what information operations are and how they are essential to military operations, but there is little written about how to actually do information operations. This monograph's purpose is twofold. First, it provides the Joint Task Force Commander procedures by which to integrate nonlethal information operations into the joint targeting process and recommends duties and responsibilities for staff officers to ensure they integrate information operations into plans and operations. Second, it offers information operations officers a single document from which to develop standing operating procedures and tactics, techniques, and procedures. Joint Publications 3-0, Doctrine for Joint Operations, and 3-09, Doctrine for Joint Fire Support, provide the doctrinal underpinnings for joint targeting. Additionally, Joint Publication 3-13, Joint Doctrine for Information Operations, provides doctrine and guidance for information operations targeting. Currently there is neither Army doctrine for information operations targeting nor tactics, techniques, and procedures on how to integrate information operations into the targeting process. This monograph attempts to fill this gap. The capabilities, limitations, and employment considerations are outlined for the nonlethal information operations capabilities and activities (i.e., civil affairs, electronic warfare, military deception, psychological operations, public affairs, and special information operations). Finally, the author makes several recommendations in the areas of personnel and organization, training and education, doctrine, and operations.
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
