# Information Operations **Entity class:** Operational discipline **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Information operations** integrate information-related capabilities to affect decision-making, protect friendly processes, and create operational effects. The term is broader than messaging and can include defensive, technical, cognitive, and organizational components under different authorities. ## Relationships - **overlaps with:** [[wiki/Influence Operations|Influence Operations]] and [[wiki/Cognitive Security|Cognitive Security]]. - **countermeasure:** [[wiki/Inoculation Theory|Inoculation Theory]] and [[wiki/Prebunking|Prebunking]]. - **threat model:** [[wiki/Memetic Contagion and Violent Extremism|Memetic Contagion and Violent Extremism]]. - **testing and training acquisition:** [[wiki/CPE ST3|CPE ST3]], whose stated mission includes information-operations capabilities. - **scenario-production layer:** [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]], [[wiki/Force Writers Room|Force Writers Room]], and [[wiki/Multi-Domain Operational Environment|MDOE]]. - **source dossier:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]