There are many definitons of information warfare. One approach is to view Information Warfare from a socio-technical perspective. This complicates the issues that need to be looked at and it provides a richer basis for not only defining Information Warfare, but also in using different types of Information Warfare.
Information warfare is both offensive and defensive.
The Persian Gulf war has been classified as the first information war by some researchers. Even though information warfare is not new, we now have the ability to transfer in a targeted manner more information, faster, to more people than ever before. In the military world, command and control warfare is the most important information warfare. Intelligence based warfare Intelligence based warfare is the traditional component of information warfare. However it needs to be updated to reflect the broader scope of information warfare.