Keyword: «information war»

The article is based on a linguistic and stylistic analysis of articles on Russia in the American socio-political media (The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The International Herald Tribune) in 2008-2018. It shows the methods of using lexical and syntactic means to create a negative image of Russia (particularly, the coverage of the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008).

The article considers information security in the context of cross-border circulation of information. The modern information society is characterized by a high level of development of information technologies and the intensity of their use, which leads to the emergence of a potential, and increasingly to a real risk of misuse of information. Information threats negatively affect both a person and society and require a special level of knowledge and a quick response to their appearance.

The article examines various aspects of the formation and promotion of the national mass culture of Russia, which in conditions when 42 states of the world, having economic and ideological dominance in the world, set the task to weaken the Russian Federation as much as possible by applying, in addition to physical methods, also the so-called «cancellation culture». The importance of not only victories in combat operations, but also the competent presentation of this information for internal and external audiences is substantiated. Separately, the necessity of the speedy displacement of foreign orientations imposed from the outside by the national mass culture is substantiated.

The fundamental elements that make up the content of military-political work at the present stage of the development of wars are considered. It is postulated that modern war has reached a different level of its development, in which the information component has become dominant. In these conditions, the activity of military-political bodies is the most important component of the formation of morale and motivation of any serviceman. The degree of assimilation of political knowledge by cadets and the development of professional and other skills necessary for further service depends on the organization and professionalization of military-political work. The main problems facing the Armed Forces in the field of military-political activity are shown.

The study of the English military-political discourse, which is not only a valuable source of information about the attitude to war, but a means of manipulation, seems to be most relevant in the context of modern information wars. The purpose of this study is to develop an approach to the analysis of the modern military and political discourse of the US leaders. Leading approaches to research problems. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the works of Russian and foreign researches in the field of discourse theory, institutional discourse, political discourse, military discourse. Main findings of the study. The analysis of the military-political discourse has shown that being a multidimensional communicative phenomenon, a military and political discourse is a means of implementing the military strategy of the United States. A specific feature of the US military-political discourse is the use of speech to influence the audience to make cognitive changes in their world view. When training future military specialists to perceive, process and extract information from foreign sources of a professional nature, attention should be paid not only to the linguistic aspects of military professional discourse, but also to the cognitive ones. The cognitive linguistic approach involves linguistic analysis of the text of speeches of military and political leaders, as well as critical analysis of discourse, consideration of pragmatics of speech acts, sociocultural circumstances of statements, which are particularly relevant to the current situation of information warfare. Theoretical and practical significance of the article. The present study formulates an approach to the interpretation of the modern military and political discourse of the USA, which can be implemented during the foreign language training of future specialists in the military and diplomatic fields, as well as in the training of translators / interpreters.