FUNDAMENTALS OF THE THEORY OF INFORMATION WAR

INTRODUCTION In today's global context of integration and fierce international competition, the information space is central to the collision and struggle of diverse national interests. New information technologies make it possible to achieve the realization and functioning of state interests without the use of military methods, to weaken, weaken or even destroy a competing state, without using forceful means, only under conditions, without awareness of the real and potential threats of negative information influences and formation of this country and the proper functioning of an effective defense and response system to these challenges and threats. Concepts such as: information society, information infrastructure, information space, and information resources – sufficiently define a certain state, level and course of socio-political, socio-economic, scientific and technical and cultural course of the state 1 . The information society also gave birth to its wars information wars. All previous wars considered had a completely different character. The new concept of information warfare involves replacing the principle of mass destruction with the principle of neutralizing the enemy's army by destroying (isolating, falsifying) critical information, rather than simply by improving the method of warfare. In the conditions of formation of information society, development and domination of information technologies, the term "information war" not only became a symbolic symbolic unit of journalistic and political vocabulary, but also began to be actively used as an independent category in the scientific discourse. The modern 21st century is increasingly called the "information technology era", in which there is a tremendous contribution to the