THE MENTAL WARS IN THE XX-XXI CENTURIES: TERMINOLOGY, BASIC STRATEGIES, APPLICATION PRACTICE
Understanding the meaning of non-military factors permeates the strategic concepts of the XX-XXI centuries, which transformation and change reflected the idea of the forces and means of such a confrontation conditionally designated by the term «mental wars». The development of strategic concepts in the XX-XXI century reflects the increasing role of social factors in the geopolitical confrontation. All the analyzed concepts reflected the essence of the problems of specific periods and the understanding of ways to solve them. The rapid change in the situation, including the emergence of new high-tech means of armed struggle, contributed to the rapid renewal of the concepts of mutual confrontation. Only the concept of «total war» lasted for more than two decades, the other concepts were used for a shorter period. The current stage of the geopolitical confrontation is characterized by the development of ideas of information warfare. In recent years the interpretation of information confrontation not only as high-tech, but also aimed at the sphere of collective psychology (mentality) has become an obvious trend.