Abstract
The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th century and how the term “information warfare” is defined in Russia. Then, by looking at the theoretical foundations of collective memory, it demonstrates how collective memory has been incorporated into news stories to create resonance with current events in Ukraine. It is concluded that the usage of collective memory can be identified in articles devoted to the war in Ukraine to resonate with conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Highlights
“History must be our guide, if only because nothing else is accessible
Since the research object is a number of articles that were published in the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, the approach of critical discourse analysis developed by Norman Fairclough was chosen for the analysis
It can be concluded that the use of collective memory in order to create resonance with the current events in Ukraine can be identified, it is very complicated to indisputably assert that collective memory has been incorporated into news stories deliberately to achieve political goals, since there is a lack of theoretical foundations of information warfare concept on which such conclusions can be grounded
Summary
“History must be our guide, if only because nothing else is accessible. the past as it is interpreted by historians provides anything but a reliable compass. Libicki argues that there are several distinct forms of information warfare, each laying claim to the larger concept These seven forms are: 1) command-and-control warfare – strikes against the enemy’s “head and neck”; its objective is to decapitate the enemy’s command structure from its body of command forces10; 2) intelligence-based warfare – consists of the design, protection, and denial of systems that seek sufficient knowledge to dominate the battle space; 3) electronic warfare – usage of radio-electronic and cryptographic operational techniques, war is waged in the realm of communications11; 4) psychological warfare – information is used to change the minds of friends, neutrals, and foes; M. Warfare can be undertaken by or against state-controlled, state-sponsored or non-state groups
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