Russia’s Armed Forces on the information war front

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Contents


Executive summary/5

Introduction/7


I Outlinng the problematic - The military dimension of the information space/8

1. strategic duality /8

2. terminological newspeak /10

3. the army as part of the information security system /11


II General discussion on documents/13

1. sources /13

2. Basic problem: social engineering /14

3. the fourth threat /15

4. the civilisational context /16

5. the internal and external addressees of russia’s strategic reflection /18

6. New trends? /20

7. a systemic approach /21


III How the informatios system operates selected case studies/24


1. the objectives of international co-operation in the information space /24

2. the regional level: back to soviet models? /29

3. the national level: military organisation of society /36


IV Conclusion