ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE STRATEGIES OF UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF INFORMATION WAR

DOI: 10.31673/2786-7412.2025.031608

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of foreign experience in the field of
ensuring information security, since recently the information sphere has turned into an
arena of confrontation. After all, the aggressor state uses new information technologies
to influence the consciousness of citizens, incite national and religious hatred, propagate
aggressive war, change the constitutional order by force, encroach on the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In order to counteract such manifestations, it is worth
studying the relevant positive experience of other countries in this area.
The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine led to a serious
rethinking of conceptual approaches to the prospects for ensuring the security and
defense of the European continent, the development of new priorities and approaches to
the implementation of foreign policy, which was reflected in the research of leading
analytical centers.
The main approaches to ensuring information countermeasures in the national
security of the European Union, Great Britain, France, Germany, etc. are considered.
Particular emphasis is placed on ensuring information security in the USA, the first
country to begin building an information society, turning the information industry into a
strategic resource. In the USA, information security issues are closely interconnected,
information policy in this country is a priority for ensuring national security. The US
Department of Defense Directive «Information Warfare» outlined a policy for protecting
information resources and gave appropriate importance to the concept of «information
warfare». The directive covered various aspects of information security, in particular,
psychological impact on the enemy, operational security, electronic interference,
information intelligence, information protection and others. In order to guarantee
information security in the USA, great importance is attached to the management of
information resources. The main goal of this is to secure its own information security
system and influence the information security system of a potential enemy. The American
model of ensuring information security fully allows for the conduct of information warfare, which includes planning and conducting active information and psychological
operations as a foreign policy tool.

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