Information resources of foreign states as a threat to Russia's military security.

The world community development history clearly demonstrates that nowadays information is playing the role of a mission-critical state resource ensuring national security of the countries all over the world, and that the informational flow control systems are the integral component of the government, economy and defense management structure. Any attempts to influence these informational control systems by the enemy, both in apparent and implicit forms, is considered by any state as a direct threat to its national interests. For example, the US military-political leadership considers that the global information space is the sphere of its vital interests, and by controlling ...