Are contemporary notions of strategy sufficient to understand Information Operations and Information Warfare?
Kuehl: They are as valid as long as you take the new capabilities and the new battle space into account. I teach strategy at our War College in Washington and the framework we have for developing strategy and evaluating strategic questions is certainly valid. But if you do not ask the IO or information questions that now need to be included in that strategy then you have done an incomplete job of analysis and you may have developed an ineffective strategy. Q: 10. Doctrine is always playing catch up with technology. Do you think the US DOD will have an IO doctrine that will enable it to conduct IO? Kuehl: One question that is often raised is whether or not the constant revision of terminology, the constant flux that it is in, is a sign of IO’s immaturity. Maybe, but the example I always use is: “give me a room of air force officers from all the air forces of the world and let me ask them what strategic air power is, and now I have just started an argument because there is no agreement o
