Defense Department officials crafting a new policy directive governing the military's approach to irregular warfare are pondering the role of information operations in that form of conflict, according to documents and sources. A new draft of the irregular warfare directive, circulated among senior military officers in late August, terms information operations a "supporting activity" to the "core" irregular warfare activities of counterterrorism, foreign internal defense, unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency and stability operations. A February version of the draft document, the first...