20 Influence non-combatant and neutral organisations to support friendly missions or, at least, not to resist friendly activities. • Protect friendly decision-making information and information systems. • • processes, Degrade the information systems of adversaries. Forms of IW 2.16 The seven forms of IW are Command and Control Warfare (C2W), Intelligence Based Warfare (IBW), Electronic Warfare (EW), Psychological Warfare, Cyber Warfare, Economic Information Warfare and Network Centric Warfare (NCW). These are discussed in succeeding paragraphs. 2.17 Command and Control Warfare. The aim of C2W is to influence, deny information to, degrade or destroy enemy C2 capabilities while protecting own C2 systems against such actions. C2W is a dominant component of IW in the military arsenal. C2W operations integrate and synchronise the capabilities of EW, military deception, physical destruction, psychological operations and operational security. 2.18 Intelligence Based Warfare. IBW is a traditional component of IW and occurs when intelligence is directly fed into operations (notably targeting and battle damage assessment) to bring transparency to the battlefield rather than being used as an input for overall C2. IBW is the direct application of battlefield intelligence instantaneously into the battle and aims at creating an asymmetry in the level of transparency or situational awareness in relation to the enemy. 2.19 Electronic Warfare. EW is a set of military actions taken to deny the use of the electro-magnetic spectrum to hostile forces while retaining the ability to use it oneself. This basically implies that the endeavour is to deny, degrade, delay or disrupt information in order to create a false picture so that the enemy is duped into making incorrect assessments and taking wrong actions. EW involves the use of electro-magnetic and directed energy to control the electro-magnetic spectrum