MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF THE MODERN BATTLEFIELD AND A NEW STRATEGIC DIMENSION OF CONFRONTATION
MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF THE MODERN BATTLEFIELD AND A NEW STRATEGIC DIMENSION OF CONFRONTATION
Author(s): Iulian AlistarSubject(s): Media studies, Security and defense, Military policy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: informational space; strategic communication; social influence; social media; public opinion; manipulation; hostile information; cyber war;
Summary/Abstract: In the general context of globalization, liberalization of informational flows and quasi-instant access to means of communication, within a society where production and consumption of information represent the most important type of activity, there is the risk that, from subject of information, a populace becomes object of manipulation. In the contemporary society, which is informational and knowledge based, modern fight transcends from its classic dimensions - namely land, air, sea and, to a lesser extent, spatial - to information dimension, where it aims to counter hostile flows of information and to project correctly, pro-actively and in due time military actions and operations in front of local, regional or international audiences. The modern fight is especially “a fight of ideas” and is produced nowadays in one new dimension where the virtual space, the informational space is the battlefield.
Journal: Strategic Impact
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 41
- Page Range: 83-89
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English