Information and communication component of the network countermeasure to national security in the military sphere

Abstract

The article conceptualizes ways of forming strategic guidelines for ensuring national security in the field of countering informational and psychological threats. The elements of the national security strategy, which are potentially significant in view of the development of active forms of information operations on the part of the enemy in the modern conflict, including military ones, are considered. Emphasis is placed on the use of special operations forces units in the field of network countermeasures against threats to national security in the military sphere. Taking this into account requires the development and implementation of the public administration specific mechanisms in the field of the national security ensuring, which are aimed at countering informational and psychological threats. In particular, it is about the need to adequately represent this issue in the national security strategy by defining the specifics of network countermeasures against threats to national security in the military sphere. In particular, it is about the development of the use of new methods of remote influence on the enemy, i.e., the expansion of the space for conducting combat operations and the environments of war, the development of new forms of defense and defensive measures, the growing importance of reconnaissance and sabotage actions in the rear of the enemy, the intellectualization of wars focused on the predominant use of high-precision and robotic weapons. This causes additional tasks to creative use of open source information as well as document analysis from documents like the National Security Strategy, National Military Strategy, taking into account that the main task in the field of military security is the development of deterrence potential, combat-ready armed forces and other components of the defense forces, capable of performing complex tasks in a multidimensional space, development of the components of the defense forces and solving the problems of ensuring the defense of the state. Information measures are an integral part of the state response to threats to national security and one of the main components of the information war aimed at achieving victory in the information space.