Although U.S. Air Force leaders have recognized the importance of information warfare (IW), the services approach to conducting IW remains nascent. This report provides recommendations for how the service should organize, train, and equip for IW.
Information warfare (IW) and analogous terms of art are not new to the U.S. militarys vocabulary or that of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Yet even with the decades-old recognition by USAF leadership that IW is fundamental to all aspects of air operations, the USAFs approach to conducting IW remains relatively nascent. In this report, RAND researchers provide actionable recommendations for how the USAF should organize, train, and equip for IW.
