All of us have a responsibility to ensure that the positive forces outweigh the negative. Developments within information warfare enable new weapons of mass destruction to be produced, thus follows the risk of new problems and uncontrollable chaos, which in turn could spread world-wide. This article is meant to warn about information warfare and meant as an appeal to mobilise the forces of good. Development can be steered towards IT aids in the service of democracy and in the service of global peace, to enable early discovery and prevention of conflicts around the world. The extent and rapidity of developments in modern information technology within society and globally affects our armed forces and overall total defence policy in a number of different ways.
Information technology provides both new threats and opportunities in existing and future conflicts.
Information handled with modern technological aids can give a military force the upper hand and information superiority , and become the most successful factor and an influential strength multiplier, but adversely, could also prove to be the main factor of vulnerability. Modern information technology enables us to spread situation scenarios rapidly to and from own friendly forces. This in turn offers rapid and co-ordinated action in the network and breaks up today's sluggish pattern of hierarchical military leadership. The ability to develop a combination of technical possibilities and new ways to organise and act, effectively strengthens both our military and civilian activities. In this age of information, small, fast and highly mobile, high-tech communication units, aside from traditional, physical forces, need to possess a great deal of intellectual strength.