The final chapter offers policy prescriptions and solutions for integrating these concerns into the framework of the United States' grand strategy to decrease the security threat and facilitate international cooperation in this area. Although Eugene Skolnikoff argues that the vulnerability of large systems is rarely noticed until disruption or catastrophe occurs , this thesis argues that these issues must be dealt with pre-emptively to minimize their economic and political costs. The purpose of this thesis is take this concept one step further. It will demonstrate that with the Information Age comes new threats to the infrastructure of the United States. In this situation, the emphasis is not on the function of command, but on maintaining the supply and value of the information.
Historical patterns reveal that information warfare is undoubtedly warfare of the future.
Traditionally, warfare has followed the different waves of development in society. Science has always been applied to war. Agrarian society saw the development of the crossbow. As scientific capacity increased, so did the weapons societies used in warfare. As nations industrialized, they used their factories to create tanks.