{"id":34502,"date":"2022-05-24T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redanalysis.org\/?p=34502"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:47:06","slug":"%e4%bf%a1%e6%81%af%e6%88%98%e5%92%8c%e4%b9%8c%e5%85%8b%e5%85%b0%e6%88%98%e4%ba%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redanalysis.org\/zh\/2022\/05\/24\/information-warfare-and-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4fe1\u606f\u6218\u4e0e\u4e4c\u514b\u5170\u6218\u4e89"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Art design: <\/a>Jean-Dominique Lavoix-Carli <\/a>
on a photo by Francesco Ungaro)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war(*<\/a>)<\/sup><\/sub> in Ukraine is hastening changes in international politics in many different ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The possibility to see the conflict morphing into World War III acts as a convincing spur for continuing efforts at understanding and adapting. Concerned and informed actors are thus trying to make sense of the ongoing conflict and of its prospects. They seek to comprehend the way relationships between actors could evolve, and more generally to understand changes at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How information is used during the war is one key element that deserves close attention, as it strongly shapes and influences the conflict and its future, as well as global international relations. Indeed, Ukraine has been hailed for its formidable mastery of information and communication (e.g. Michael Butler, “Ukraine\u2019s information war is winning hearts and minds in the West<\/a>“, The Conversation<\/em>, 12 May 2022). Actors on the world stage are assessing the way information warfare is carried out during the war in Ukraine and will continue to do so. The resulting lessons learned will deeply impact future handling of information in the international arena. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we present first what is information warfare<\/a>, using mainly American doctrine. Then, we turn to Ukraine and some of the features of its information warfare<\/a>, and give examples of its “strategic communications”. We highlight what can be seen as success, but also point out more worrying potential consequences. As much as possible we tried to include videos to illustrate our points, including a documentary on the history of psyops and an interview by Pr Noam Chomsky on the war in Ukraine and propaganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The galaxy of Information warfare<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If we wanted to summarise quickly what information warfare is, then we could simply say that it is the use by an actor – usually a state or state-like actor, but that could be any entity, in all settings, be it war or peace, of all possible means related to and involving information to gain influence over others and see objectives met. The “others” can be anyone. It can be for example, a domestic or overseas audience. Let us examine this brief summary more detail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n