Military policy in cyberspace of leading world countries and military-political institutions concept

Abstract

The globalization and modernization processes form a unique phenomenon of virtual information policy as a means for protecting the national interests in cyberspace. It is a task that requires a new and effective information policy as the latest information technologies appear to challenge the current order of things. In contemporary world, creating such a policy is a prerogative of developed states as the other players feel themselves under a continual threat of information colonialism. It appears to be an objective universal issue, caused by a number of complex processes, such as the presence of open or hidden information aggression in the modern information and political space, complicated by globalization that tends towards integration and unification of the world. This manifests itself in a variety of forms and consequences of information confrontation that affects the forming of a new social model the main subject of which is the information society. The authors separate the concept of cyberspace as a particular object of scientific study. It is examined as a non-linear complex category for a complex socio-political phenomenon. The development of information and communication technologies in the global information space has objectively conditioned the necessity to establish the system of integral cyber power and means application in military actions. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the main tendencies in military policy of the developed countries and military-political institutions in cyberspace with respect to constructing of an effective system of counteraction to cyber threats in the global information space and the means of cyber warfare. The authors also endeavour to provide the definition of the content and essence of cyberspace as a testing area for the latest technologies within the context of information war.