Information-Related Capabilities

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Information-Related Capabilities (IRCs) are tools, techniques, or activities employed within a dimension of the information environment to create effects and operationally desirable conditions.4 IRCs historically include, but are not limited to operations security (OPSEC), military deception (MILDEC), military information support operations (MISO), electronic warfare (EW), cyberspace operations (CO), and special technical operations (STO).

Information Operations (IO) is the integrated employment during military operations of information-related capabilities (IRCs), in concert with other lines of operation to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the decision-making of adversaries and potential adversaries while protecting our own.5 IO integrates the application of force and the employment of information with the goal of affecting the perception and will of adversaries. The integration of IRCs for effect can be compared to fire support coordination, in which a targeting methodology synchronizes and employs various capabilities to generate desired effects. It is the integration and synchronization of IRCs that enables desired effects in and through the IE at specified times and locations.