Volume 25, Issue 1 Editorial
Winter 2026
As the journal enters its 25th year, the editorial team thought it was a good idea to celebrate the occasion by having two special editions, this one and one in September. This edition, 25.1, contains six papers from the 1st to the 10th editions. The idea was to examine them and see, in retrospect, how the information in them lasted over time. Were the predictions accurate? Did they add to the body of knowledge and assist in the development and understanding of Information Warfare? In the six picked for this exercise, it seems that the content gave the reader some interesting angles for the time. It must be remembered that the first edition was released on the 7th of September, 2001. Four days later the world had changed.
The development of personal computers, mobile telephones, networks, the ‘cloud’, and so on fundamentally changed the ground rules for this kind of ‘warfare’. Not only this, of course, but the nature of the perceived enemy changed. Those involved expanded to individuals from all walks of life and became global. Most societies became dependent on software, networks, and hardware to function. Communications were dominated by electronic media. Social media made individuals form new relationships with others. We all become ‘digital’ reliant.
I urge you to read these ‘old’ papers and the comments from those on the editorial board; we would value your comments.
In September, we are publishing an edition where established figures in this area will speculate about future developments over the next 50 years. What is different about this issue is that it is about educated opinion rather that research results. Personally, I am looking forward to this issue. I hope you are as well.
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Peregrine Technical Solutions, LLC Yorktown, VA
Dr. Leigh Armistead is the President of Peregrine Technical Solutions, a certified 8(a) small business that specializes in cyber security, and the Chief Editor of the Journal of Information Warfare. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy (1984), earned a master’s degree in Military History from Old Dominion University (1993), and a doctorate in Computer and Information Science from Edith Cowan University (2009). His major field of study is cyber power. He has published three books—all of which focus on the full spectrum of information warfare. He founded the International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, and the Vice-Chair Working Group 9.10–ICT Uses in Peace and War. He is a retired Naval officer.
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