The Perennial Question of Information Warfare

In his book, The New Face of War, Bruce Berkowitz asks the perennial question in regard to information intelligence on the enemy;

“Even the Indians faced the Perennial Question when they discovered rival tribes using smoke signals. It confounds information warriors even today”

Deny, deceive, destroy, or exploit?

Do you transmit your smoke signals to interfere with his?
Do you send bogus to confuse your adversary so that he is easier to kill?
Do you find the enemy sending the message and kill him?
Or do you quietly watch the signals so you know where your adversary plans to be, head him off, and kill him then?”

What do you do with information intelligence on Al Qaeda? Well, if you’re a disgruntled CIA or NSA analyst you clearly need to leak it to the press to deny its value to your enemy, the United States, or as you justify, GWB. But whether you are concerned about the sanctity of the Forth Amendment or you are a paranoid moonbat with a tinfoil hat, the enemy is now among us. Fortress America has been breached. Now what?

Deny, deceive, destroy, or exploit?

Whatever our answer is it is clear that we must not let the information networks of our adversaries operate with impunity. Certainly we must observe them at work, whether they are using a chat line in Arabia, or having a casual conversation about how to destroy the West on their cell phone in Boston. We must orient ourselves to their modus operandi, and be capable of the necessary action. We must decide on the best way on how to defeat our adversaries. We must act with purpose or we will be out maneuvered, out gunned, and outlasted as a civilization.

The Forth Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”