MAIN CRITERIA FOR CLASSIFICATION OF THE TYPES OF INFORMATION CONFRONTATION

Year 2019, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 45 - 50, 01.12.2019

Krasovskaıa Natalııa Rudolfovna Gulyaev Andrey Anatolyevıch

Abstract

analysis was used to consider psychological operations conducted in the information space. The various bases of psychological confrontations have common points that unite them into a single whole. As a result of the study, it was possible to identify the most typical grounds for the classification of information wars, determine the classification criteria and highlight their main types. The authors proposed an original approach to the classification of information wars on geographical basis. System analyses was one more method used in the study. Terms such as informational operation, informational impact, psychological warfare, behavioral warfare and cyberwarfare are the elements of a system to describe information warfare. The use of various methods in the study allowed to identify the basis for the classification of information wars

Keywords

information war, information operation, psychological war, behavioural war, cyberwarfare

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