NATO a dezinformacja. Siedem dekad doświadczeń
NATO’s seventy years war against disinformation

Summary/Abstract: Russian disinformation directed against NATO predates the organisation’s birth in 1949. For more than 70 years of the alliance’s existence, Moscow’s information operations have been consistently directed against NATO’s cohesion, the political security of democratic states, civil society and freedom of choice based on knowledge and public trust, and in military terms, against credible deterrence and collective defence. Disinformation was treated as a substitute for a hot conflict and as an asymmetric tactic to reinforce the impact of other means of rivalry with the West. The next few decades confirmed the continuity of Russian strategic goals and the place of active measures in Moscow’s arsenal. Those years have also shaped the modus operandi of NATO’s strategic communications based on verified, truthful and timely information. Nowadays, the massive scale, speed and modern technologies in the service of Russian (and increasingly Chinese) disinformation brought about an intensification of NATO’s activities in this area. The perception of the threat posed by disinformation as an autonomous challenge, and a component of complex hybrid scenarios pursued by Western adversaries, has been emphasised, since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, by NATO’s strategic documents, including the latest edition of its Strategic Concept (2022).

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