Byting back : regaining information superiority against 21st-century insurgents / / Martin C. Libicki ... [et al.] ; prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

• Superior document: Rand counterinsurgency study. Paper ; v. 1
• Author: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• TeilnehmendeR: Libicki, Martin C.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Rand counterinsurgency study. Paper ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Notes: "RAND National Defense Research Institute."

U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government and an armed opposition movement, the key to exploiting information power is to connect with and learn from the population itself, increasing the effectiveness of both the local government and the U.S. military and civilian services engaged in supporting it. Utilizing mostly available networking tech

Table of Contents

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Chapter Two - The Influence of User Requirements; Chapter Three - The Registry-Census; Chapter Four - A Well-Wired Country; Chapter Five - Embedded Video; Chapter Six - A National Wiki; Chapter Seven - The Principles of ICON; Chapter Eight - Implications and Implementation; Appendix - Disaggregated Information Requirements; Bibliography