INFORMATION WARS IN THE CONDITIONS OF GEOPOLITICAL CONFRONTATION

Abstract

In geopolitics, winning the peace is more difficult than winning the war. That is why the government needs shrewdness to keep confrontation within the framework of diplomacy and to win by maintaining the peace. In modern geopolitical conflict, flexible power consistently replaces rigid power, which can force the enemy to surrender without a fight; this can be achieved by information dominance, which consists of culture, political values, and foreign policy. Because of these factors the world's leading states are attractive to newly independent countries, which cannot resist the challenges of the 21st century without the assistance of strong allies, and they have to follow "politics of chasing" due to realizing this danger.