
( FM 3-0) Relevant information drawn from intelligence supports the creation and development of situational understanding that contributes directly to information superiority during decisive operations. Information superiority is the operational advantage derived from the ability to collect, process and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information while exploiting or denying an adversary's ability to do the same. Information gives direction to actions by the force, identifies the enemy's centers of gravity, provides COAs for force activity, and enables the force to accomplish its operational mission. Information is the medium that allows the commander's decisionmaking and execution cycle to function.

Commanders must have detailed information to command. ( JP 1-02) Information provides the key to battlefield success in the 21 st century. Information is facts, data, or instructions in any medium or form the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in their representation.

( FM 3-0) The information environment, it should be noted, is not an exclusively military one in fact, the military applications of information are almost obscured in today's universal usage of the information spectrum by national, inter-national, and non-state players. The information environment is the aggregate of individuals, organizations, and systems that collect, process, store, display, and disseminate information also included is the information itself. Appendix A Intelligence and Information Operations THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTĪ-1.
