Revision of the U.S. Cyberstrategy under Donald Trump: Preamble for Aggression?

Mankind has entered the critical zone of breaking the world order. The more and more disruptive in this process is the infogenic narrative. The United States, as one of the leaders of information and communication technologies (ICT), has been adaptively developing and using its cyberpotential in geopolitical competition for over 30 years to implement the doctrine of global information dominance. The US cyber strategies are largely predetermining global trends in the use of ICT. The absence of legally binding international norms and rules of behavior of states in the information space allowed the United States in the latest cyber strategies under false threats to conduct against Russia, the PRC, Iran and the DPRK not only defensive, but also offensive operations both in war and in peacetime in the context of conducting hybrid wars The US intimidates the Western public with “Russian hackers,” attributing to them “hacking” of computer networks almost all over the world. This policy provokes other countries to adopt their cyber doctrine, stimulating the information arms race. Attempts by Russia and its partners in the SCO, BRICS and other formats of cooperation to ensure international information security (IIS) at the UN, OSCE, APEC sites, etc. meet more and more aggressive opposition from the United States and its satellites. This, in particular, was reflected in the failure of the adoption of the final document by the UN Group of Governmental Experts on the IIS in 2017. Against the background of these events, the development under the UN auspices of the global rules of responsible behavior of states in the information space is becoming even more relevant. Russia submitted a draft resolution to the First Committee of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, as well as the development of a Convention on Cybercrime in the Third Committee.

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