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This publication examines how and why information operations have gained importance during the past decade. The ability to influence the enemy's information or the attitudes of the civilian population in theaters of conflict, and to secure one’s own information and information systems, have become important success factors in military operations. The author details how such concepts have given rise to vehement controversies. Disagreement remains, however, over the nature and scope of operations that can be carried out by the armed forces of democratic states under the rule of law. The publication further points out that clarification is required as for the distribution of responsibility and tasks at the interface of civilian and military authority.