MENTAL TERRORISM AS A METHOD OF WAGING HYBRID WARFAREIN A DIGITAL SOCIETY

In digital society, the demarcation of the boundaries of war and peace as forms of existence is changing. Digitalization so expands the tools for using asymmetric force in military-political conflicts that the hybrid war between states and cultures in a digital society becomes global and incessant. The author analyzes mental terrorism as a modern method of conducting hybrid warfere and proposes to clarify its understanding, since in modern domestic scientific research the concept is interpreted rather vaguely. Based on consideration of the theory of mental medicine and mental preventology by academician P.I. Sidorov, the article conceptualizes the concept of “mental terrorism“ and poses the problem of the need to humanize digital progress.