Information War and the Air Force: Wave of the Future? Current Fad?

"Information War," in all of its actual and semantic variations, is a very hot topic these days. The subject has received considerable attention in a variety of forums: serious analysis for professionals, popularized accounts for lay audiences, pop futurology, and post-Cold War melodramas. The national security bureaucracy is currently very active in this arena, with all of the military services and various civilian agencies and their supporting analytical organizations (including RAND) establishing centers for information warfare, writing position papers, and generally grappling with the problem of how to cope with the information revolution and its consequences.