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Ethics and Information Warfare
From: RAND | By: John Arquilla

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION | Since early civilization, war--as a force of conflict and change--has gone hand in hand with rules about what constitutes a "just war." John Arquilla, a senior researcher with RAND, explains the principles and history of just-war theory. He then applies these concepts to an emerging arena of modern warfare: attacks on and conflicts over information warehouses and resources, whether digital databases or communications infrastructures.


John Arquilla examines the intersection between ethical rules of war and information warfare in this excerpt from Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information and Warfare.