INFORMATION WARFARE IN THE MODERN WORLD

Abstract

The relevance of research in the field of information wars lies in the fact that every state has a need to ensure the security of the functioning of its information systems and to protect them from deliberate influence. Conflicts based on information warfare are becoming more and more frequent. The topic of information warfare is relevant today because it is one of the active instruments of modern geopolitics, which has an impact on the political, economic, and cultural life of a given society. Unlike the wars known to human history, the goals of information warfare are not the physical destruction of the enemy, but a negative impact on the adversary through the distortion of information in order to manipulate public consciousness. Information warfare in the 21st century is acquiring a more total character. The information sphere is also becoming an arena of interstate confrontation, and therefore it can threaten national security. At present, ideological-informational war also includes propaganda, which, by substituting historical facts, manipulates people’s consciousness. For example, all of Facebook is teeming with pseudo-history about the so-called “Great Armenia”. The history of Armenia is being falsified, and these fictitious narratives are accompanied by emphasis on the supposed long- suffering and special character of the Armenian people, who allegedly are unique. But no matter how much Armenian pseudo-historians and politicians praise themselves, sometimes all their information reaches the point of absurdity, since they resort to fantasies.