# Information Warfare Information warfare treats information and the systems that produce, move, authenticate, interpret, and preserve it as an operational terrain. Relevant resources include attention, trust, access, identity, provenance, visibility, narrative legitimacy, and behavioral response. Operations may seek to deceive, suppress, amplify, exhaust, impersonate, fragment, or redirect. Defensive practice therefore spans technical security and human interpretation: accounts and channels must remain trustworthy, but populations must also be able to recognize manipulation and recover shared evidentiary ground. The concept should not be used to label ordinary disagreement as warfare. Attribution requires evidence, and defensive measures should preserve lawful expression and cognitive agency. Related: [[wiki/Cognitive Security|Cognitive Security]], [[wiki/Computational Propaganda|Computational Propaganda]], [[wiki/Narrative Defense|Narrative Defense]], [[wiki/Influence Operations|Influence Operations]].