Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun information_warfare

1 sense of information warfare

Sense 1
information warfare, IW -- (the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries; "not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare")
       => war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")