The 1996 winners of the Sun Tzu award include: "Knowledge Strategies: Balancing Ends, Ways, and Means in the Information Age" by LTC William Fast which describes the effects of information age technologies on United States values, national interests, security policy, and how the ends, ways, and means paradigm must adapt to information age warfare. Devost, Houghton, and Pollard's paper entitled "Information Terrorism: Can You Trust Your Toaster" presents a futuristic information warfare scenario and an information terror typology which illustrates the lethality of information terrorism attacks. "The Silicon Spear: An Assessment of Information-based Warfare and U.S. National Security" by Everett, Dewindt and McDade provides a retrospective and prospective review of information-based warfare in a national security context and within the context the next revolution in military affairs. In a well documented paper recognized as in an honorable mention category, Colonel Brian Frederick's, USA summarizes information warfare at the three year mark with the admonition: Where do we go from here?

Winners of the 1995 award include: Dr. John Miller's paper "Information Warfare: Issues and Perspectives" which reviews the elusiveness of the concept of information warfare. His discussion ranges from a narrowly defined context of information warfare focused on military operations to a much broader discussion of information warfare as an offshoot of the information revolution. In "A Chapter Not Yet Written", Colonel Adolf Carlson, USA grounds his discussion of information management and the challenge of battle in case studies from the Civil War (The Case of Fitz John Porter) and the Persian Gulf War (The Case of General Fredrick Franks) to illustrate the enduring issues of decision making under pressure in information rich and poor environments. Lastly, LTC Steven G. Fox, USA examines the "Unintended Consequences of Joint Digitization" including a discussion of the potential for merging the operational and tactical levels of war, diminishing a commander's prerogatives, and increasing the fragility of the force.

Papers selected for the Sun Tzu award were selected using a formalized peer review process. Reviewers selected winning submissions on the basis of originality, innovativeness, and potential contribution to national security policy and strategy development. Particular emphasis was given to the grounding of the author(s) thesis in history and projecting implications for future conflict scenarios.

Please note that papers contained in this compendium were submitted as part of an academic endeavor and should be viewed within an academic context. Papers in this volume represent the views of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Information Resources Management College, the National Defense University, or the Department of Defense.

Special thanks to Dr. Daniel Kuehl of the School of Information Warfare and Strategy, NDU for his continued efforts as a reviewer and to Captain Gina Oliver, USAF, for her efforts to assemble this document into a coherent whole.

						Dr. Robert E. Neilson

						Editor