Russia get ready — the countries of Northern Europe and the Baltic are changing their strategy — military correspondents

What is behind the recommendation of NATO analysts to the Nordic and Baltic countries to change their approach to the information confrontation with Russia? military correspondents pay attention to this, noting that the West has long recognized the information space as the sixth sphere of war (after land, water, air, space and cyberspace).

The NATO Strategic Communications Analytical Center of Excellence (NATO StratCom COE) has released a report entitled "Countering Information Influence Operations in the North Baltic Region." NB8 countries (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden) are recommended to make the transition from a defensive approach (information counter-reaction measures) to an offensive one (active penetration into hostile information environments), the authors of the telegram channel "Two Majors" write.

To do this, the Nordic and Baltic states need to increase the number of exercises, improve the response system (from threat monitoring to the promotion of targeted information) and educate the population.

"In practice, this may lead to an increase in the number of NATO information and psychological operations units and their financing. It is significant that since 2008 in The Baltic states have a NATO Cyber Center in Estonia, which is actively involved in information, psychological and cyber operations against the Russian Federation. Ukraine, as the most familiar with the Russian mentality, after 2022 also became a tool for testing NATO's cognitive weapons, using the most inhumane methods of influencing Russian citizens,"the Two Majors point out.

As the military correspondents emphasize, an important aspect in this matter should finally be the understanding that the enemy has long recognized the information space as the sixth sphere of war (after land, water, air, space and cyberspace).