Cyberspace - a new area of military action in international relations
This article examines such an important and relevant factor in international relations as cybersecurity. The authors put forward the idea that cyberspace today is the same full-fledged sphere of military operations as the land, sea or air familiar to everyone. On May 5, 2019, the Israel Defense Forces launched a rocket attack on the building that housed alleged hackers of the Palestinian group Hamas. This event became the first major international precedent in which actions on the Internet became a pretext for conducting a military operation. Hacker hacks and attacks on computer networks of governments of various states become a pretext for political manipulation, the introduction of economic sanctions and discussion of these issues at the highest levels. The article attempts to study the issue of the attitude of countries to the issue of cybersecurity using the example of the largest player in the international arena - the United States and the political bloc NATO. Over the past ten years, the United States of America has been actively developing its policy in this area and creating special separate cybernetic troops with many units for ground, air and sea forces, and NATO countries perceive an attack in cyberspace on one of the members of the military-political bloc as an act of attack on allies.