{"id":30347,"date":"2025-07-04T08:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igp.org.ua\/?p=30347"},"modified":"2025-07-05T17:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:28:59","slug":"cifrovij-prostir-staye-arenoyu-sistemno%d1%97-vijni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igp.org.ua\/en\/publikacii\/cifrovij-prostir-staye-arenoyu-sistemno%d1%97-vijni\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Space is Becoming an Arena for Systemic Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hybrid Silence: How the World Is Losing a War It Does Not Realize It Is Fighting \u2014 analysis by Baku Network<\/h1>\n

Recently, the Azerbaijani online publication day.az published an article by Elchin Aloglu on the topic of modern information wars, among other articles relevant not only to Azerbaijan. The author summarizes world events and explains their characteristics and reasons, while predicting possible consequences of current military conflicts not only on the territories of  the former USSR. This is especially relevant now, when we are witnessing the emergence and development of tensions, including in relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, and, in one way or another, comparing them with the situation that has been observed in Ukraine since 2014 and from the beginning of 2022 to the present day. The author mainly describes how the influence of information on society is increasing today, what this leads to, and how to prevent various attempts to use means of communication that are popular among the population, which, as we know, is not easy to do. Incidentally, in an effort to be objective, the author draws examples to support his conclusions not only from the context of what is happening in the country where he resides. The horizons of his observations extend to the West, where only now people begin to realize the forms and types of influence that certain circles have on the European community and the purpose for which this is being done. The content of the article, of course, cannot be considered the ultimate truth, but it is undoubtedly worthy of attention, because it is not only about the present.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The author of the article is the director of Baku Network, an architect, and a public figure. He was born in Baku on September 18, 1967. In 2004\u20132005, he was the representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Azerbaijan on the construction of a Catholic church in Baku. Since 2015, he has been a professor at the West Caspian University in Baku. The text is presented in translation and with minor abridgements, which, in our opinion, cannot influence the reader\u2019s conclusions.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the 21st<\/sup>  century, the West proclaimed the triumph of its world order. Liberal democracy became not just an ideology, but a system with no alternative. However, as the events of the last decade have shown, the stability of this order has proved uncertain. The world has entered a phase of invisible and asymmetrical struggle in which the usual rules no longer apply. Security is no longer a matter of armies and borders \u2014 it has dissolved into data flows, algorithms, network attacks, and information manipulation. Europe, which was confident in its inviolability, turned out to be quite vulnerable.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Paradox of Peace: Security As a Background, Not a Strategy\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>The fundamental crisis of European security did not begin with tanks or terrorists. It began with perception. After the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, the Western world decided that the era of strategic conflicts was a thing of the past. This idea was best expressed by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama in \u201cThe End of History\u201d: liberal democracy had triumphed, history had ended. But, as the 21st<\/sup>  century has shown, history has only changed its form.<\/p>\n

After 2001, Europe has already faced waves of violence \u2014 terrorist attacks in London, Paris, and Brussels. However, unlike direct aggression, cyber threats and hybrid forms of influence were perceived not as existential challenges, but as technical incidents. That was a strategic mistake.<\/p>\n

Cyberattacks are no longer ancillary elements of military action. Since 2015, more than 450 incidents classified as attacks on critical infrastructure have been recorded in the European Union alone. Among the largest:<\/p>\n