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Information Warfare and Cyber Education: Issues and Recommendations

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National Cyber Summit (NCS) Research Track 2020 (NCS 2020)

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With the introduction of the Information Warfare (IW) paradigm across military service components, the institution of a new education focus is apropos. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the shifts in thought regarding IW and how the introduction of the fields of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), electromagnetic warfare (EW), and information operations (IO) is changing how we educate our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and government civilians. The multidisciplinary ramifications will be discussed separately in order to better define each discipline’s requirements and individual foci as they apply to cyber operations (CO), ISR, EW, and IO.

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This is a shortened version of the paper titled “It’s Not Just About Cyber Anymore: Multidisciplinary Cyber Education and Training under the New Information Warfare Paradigm” originally published in Joint Forces Quarterly. Express permission for this condensed version granted by JFQ.

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Sipper, J.A. (2021). Information Warfare and Cyber Education: Issues and Recommendations. In: Choo, KK.R., Morris, T., Peterson, G.L., Imsand, E. (eds) National Cyber Summit (NCS) Research Track 2020. NCS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58703-1_14

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