Humanity can’t live without information because it is the source of not only the elementary knowledge but also social status, profits, and certain advantages. Information is the modern instruments of the life you want to get.
Information’s role is very important nowadays no doubt. Information is available everywhere that was favourable for the development of new psychological addiction that is information addiction.
Turn around and you’ll find yourself covered with information that doesn’t allow breathing. But no, breathing is information and nothing more.
Information is the unique form of manipulation as with its help it is possible to make people believe in everything you want and to make people do everything you want.
It is always necessary to tell useful and true information from the waste with which libraries and Mass Media are filled not to mention internet.
There are three main aims of information warfare that are:
- To control the information space to use it protecting the military information functions from the actions of the enemy.
- To use the control over information for the information attacks providence.
- To raise the general efficiency of the military forces with the help of the military information functions use.
The protective function of information warfare is the safety precautions the main aim of which is not to allow the enemy to have the successful information attack on the information functions.
The modern ways of defence such as software security and communicative security are the typical ways on the finding of military actions of enemies. Such actions as computer security and software security include actions on the prevention of the direct information attacks from the side of the enemy as well as organization of response attacks.
All actions taken during the information warfare are directed to achieve the main aims of the war that means to get victory. But some methods of information warfare are used during the peaceful time to form the certain opinion in the society and make the government weaker and not so united. That is why some countries of the world take all possible measures to make the access to Mass Media and other sources of information used by society not so free for the international foreign access. Information warfare is much more dangerous than it may seem.