Modern War: Transformation to Network Forms

Abstract

An attempt at epistemological knowledge is made with regard to the transformation of war as a socio-cultural phenomenon with an emphasis on the actualization of a new type of weapon – an information weapon. It is justified that network wars are a specific type of information wars. It is shown that the processes of the development of information warfare and its technological tools are connected with the change of the type of scientific rationality in the course of the historical development of man and society. It is emphasized that the network war is a factor in the formation of social fears and “existential vacuum”, since the information space actively affects social relations and the sphere of security. The conclusion is substantiated that at the center of war, as before, remains a person, their will, and network-centric war is human-centric, it does not have any center at all.