Nobody: The Name behind Informational Blindness. The Russian Information Warfare in Ukraine
Nobody: The Name behind Informational Blindness. The Russian Information Warfare in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: Under the guise of the name of Nobody that the cunning Odysseus chooses in his confrontation with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the current Russian information war in Ukraine has all the characteristics of disinformation by doctrinal dissimulation. The very concept of information warfare, borrowed from Western doctrines, covers a wider field of action, being operationally in line with the reflexive control theory inherited from the Soviet period. The tools, techniques and methods of Western information operations are no match for those engaged in Russian information warfare, because the Russian Federation is raising the stakes of this conflict from the hard power levelto the springs of all forms of power, soft and hard: political, economic, symbolic and military, under a misleading name. This article aims to further investigate the forms of Russian doctrinal dissimulation by using concepts such as hybrid warfare (Lesenciuc, 2023) and to analyze the objectives, activities, targets and effects of Russian information warfare in the invasion of Ukraine.

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