By Zalmay Khalilzad, United States. Air Force, Rand Corporation, Project Air Force (U.S.)
Complex info applied sciences could have a profound impact on our nationwide defense. pushed by way of the necessity to comprehend this revolution and to take steps in the direction of protecting opposed to info assault, the editors supplied this thorough exam of data war, with implications for the U.S. and different nations.
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This volume will reflect those wide-ranging implications. The book is divided into three parts: Part I analyzes the effects of information technology on society and the international system. Part II focuses on the United States and examines what new opportunities and vulnerabilities these new information technologies will present for the United States. S. decisionmakers need to understand if they are to function in the world to come. Information Technology and Society Part I begins with the implications of information technologies at the highest level: their effects on society and the international system.
Capability to project power in a timely fashion. At times, such a delay could result in having to accept a fait accompli and putting at risk important national security interests. S. forces that rely heavily on rapid communications and joint operations. S. military preeminence. S. conventional weaponrybut one with a very long reach. Propelled by numerous press reports of break-ins into DoD and other sensitive computer systems, threats to our information systems have become an important national issue.
Page 12 David Gompert also foresees that the most important changes will come at the societal level, but he is much more sanguine about the outcome. For Gompert, information technology requires democracy and free markets to unleash its vast productive and military potential. Countries that choose not to embrace democracy and free markets will therefore lose power relative to open democracies. The world's great powers will therefore be, like the United States, open, free, and united in their opposition to any threats that may arise.