The U.S. Army has released its first doctrinal publication outlining the service branch’s efforts and priorities to take advantage of data and information technologies during military operations and at home station.
Army Doctrine Publication 3-13, Information, sets the fundamental principles for creating and exploiting information advantages to achieve mission objectives while hindering adversaries’ ability to do the same, the service branch said Monday.
ADP 3-13 focuses on five activities to achieve information advantage: enable military activities for enhancing command and control; protect data, information and networks; provide informed perceptions of military operations and activities; influence the behavior of foreign relevant actors; and hinder adversaries’ capabilities to communicate and conduct information warfare.
“Operations now require leaders to consider how information enables operations, how to protect friendly information, how to employ information against an enemy or adversary, and how to attack the enemy’s ability to use information effectively,” said Richard Creed, director of Combined Arms Center’s Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate.
