No. |
IW level |
Organizational form |
Purpose |
Relation between levels |
Number of attacks |
1 |
Strategic |
Information warfare (IW) |
Military defeat of the opponent. May be achieved by either destruction or submission to a will. |
Information warfare is a sequence of information operations united by a single idea and coordinated by purposes, tasks, objects, forms and methods of information influence. |
four or more(at least two CW) |
2 |
Operational |
Information operation (IO) |
Introduction of certain patterns to follow a specific model of behavior beneficial for information operation organizers into the consciousness and subconsiousness of a person. |
Information operation is a sequence of information attacks united by a single idea and coordinated by purposes, tasks, objects, forms and methods of information influence. |
at least two |
3 |
Tactical |
Information attack (IA) |
Introduction of certain patterns for immediate response in response to an impulse from any external stimulus into consciousness and subconsciousness of a person. |
Information attack is an operational combination of certain techniques, methods and tools of information influence united by a single idea and coordinated by purposes, tasks, objects, forms and methods of information influence. |
always one |
4 |
Tool |
Certain techniques, methods and tools of informational and psychological influence |
Receiving immediate response to external information stimulus (by the “stimulus-reaction” principle). |
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