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标题：Information Warfare, Cyberspace Objectives, and the US Air Force
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作者：Gen Gregory J.Gagnon
期刊名称：Air & Space Power Journal
印刷版ISSN：1554-2505
出版年度：2020
卷号：34
期号：3
页码：4-9
语种：English
出版社：U.S. Air Force, Air University
摘要：Good or bad, odd or even, night or day, from a very young age, and throughout our schooling, we are taught through dichotomous logic. It often unconsciously shapes how we perceive the world and impacts our decisions. Before we were the Department of Defense (DOD), we were the Department of War. That dichotomous logic of war or peace often extends unconsciously to America’s thinking about defense and security. The National Defense Strategy correctly identifies this national cognitive bias. It articulates a need for the DOD and the nation to compete today below the threshold of war to defend and secure US national security objections against adversaries who are actively using all elements of their national power to achieve their desired outcome. Although we use the term information warfare, such activities may be most impactful in times below the threshold of war. In October 2019, the US Air Force established the Sixteenth Air Force, our Information Warfare Numbered Air Force, and in only a short nine months and three days rapidly accelerated this organization from the initial operating capability to the Headquarters full operating structure by July 2020.