War consists of violence, enmity and passion chance and friction rationalised political objectives and dynamic interaction. War is nonlinear and intrinsically unpredictable. Īs we prosecute war, we continuously assess our relative strengths and weaknesses against an intelligent adversary, while trying to understand how they think and how they might view our own strengths and weaknesses. Indeed, the asymmetry or unequalness, ‘achieving or improving sustainable competitive advantage’, of our capabilities against adversary capabilities are the intended consequence of military professional doctrine, concepts, experimentation, lessons, rehearsals, education and training.
Ethical wars do not, necessarily, mean that war is a ‘fair fight’. The Australian Defence Force values of service, courage, respect, integrity and excellence, mandate our continuous ethical conduct, including at war. if war is, at least in part, a contest for meaning, can it ever be a fair fight when only one side has access to those perfect instruments of empire, pens, paper and printing presses? Īs a point for consideration in applying information warfare, Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper of Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University, writes: An objective of information warfare is achieving information superiority and advantage over an adversary which can be exploited in the maritime, land, air, cyber and space domains. Information warfare is ‘the contest for the provision and assurance of information to support friendly decision-making, while denying and degrading that of adversaries’.
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