Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija

The expanding significance of the information domain in today’s “information society” highlights the necessity of efficient information security and governance. The distribution of dangerous information has become more accessible due to the quick development of information dissemination technologies; therefore, a thorough understanding of information dissemination mechanisms is necessary to create effective countermeasures. An established and successful method for resolving these problems is modelling. This study aims to explore the information warfare paradigm further and how it relates to the idea of conflict, a topic covered in several related publications. The ultimate goal of this article is to develop a comprehensive system that uses software tools to assess the dynamics of internal conflict using the information warfare paradigm.

We construct and study a continuous model that describes the conflict interaction of two complex systems with non-trivial internal structures. External conflict interaction is modeled by the additional influence of chance. The dynamics of internal conflict are similar to the Lotka-Volterra model, namely the model of information warfare. We interpret the new model of information warfare as the influence of rare events that rapidly change certain ideas of a large number of people. As a result, the number of supporters of different ideas make stochastic jumps that we can see using the Levy approximation scheme. We suggest that such a model could be more natural, as important news now has a quick and wonderful impact on audiences through television and the Internet.