V knige obosnovyvaetsya rol' i mesto informatsionnoy bor'by v sovremennykh usloviyakh. Izlagaetsya struktura i soderzhanie eye teorii. Bol'shoe vnimanie udeleno sistemam pokazateley otsenki effektivnosti, matematicheskim modelyam, organizatsionnym i tekhnicheskim meram po porazheniyu i zashchite informatsii. Eto pervyy opyt predstavleniya v obobshchennom vide osnovnykh teoreticheskikh polozheniy informatsionnoy bor'by, slozhivshikhsya k nastoyashchemu vremeni, a takzhe lichnye vzglyady avtora na rassmatrivaemuyu problemu. Dlya shirokogo kruga spetsialistov, zanimayushchikhsya kak problemami zashchity informatsii, tak i voprosami ee porazheniya, a takzhe dlya studentov i aspirantov VUZov i prosto lyubopytnykh lyudey.