1. Operation Unified Assistance was the coordinated relief efforts for the victims of the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami .
2. Information operations conducted during time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries . Joint Publication (JP) 1 – 02 , Department of Defense ,DoD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.
3. Note: the revised but unapproved version of JP 3–13 (dated 8 July 2004) defines IO as “The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.”
4. JP 1 – 02 ,DoD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, dated 12 April 2001 , amended 7 October 2004 .
5. Note: As stated earlier, China equates the U.S. term Information Operations to its Information Warfare .