Resumen
This article discusses the application of information technology in war situation. Information warfare is not just about "hacker war". Infowar is far broader and requires a much deeper reform of national security. The article cites examples of war in Rawanda, an African country formerly known as Zaire, which began in early 1997. Zairean government in 1997 had no friends to call for help, whereas Kosovo, Serbia was just down the road from the U.S.-created, tri-ethnic statelet of Bosnia, whose possible collapse would have undermined one of the U.S.'s self-declared foreign policy successes. But techniques of infowar played a central role in the outcome of these crisis. Not the media's usual infowar stuff about hackers, but the essential infowar, manipulating the flow of information to make the enemy bend. Throughout the attack on Zaire, which began in early 1997, few media or humanitarian organizations could get near the fighting. Roadblocks, demands for bribes, denying TV reporters of enough interesting footage to justifying their expensive travel costs, the occasional killing and bullying of journalists, and distrust between the media and aid workers, all combined to minimize TV coverage.