Danyk Yu.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Chief of Institute of Information
Technologies Ivan Cherniakhovsky National Defence University of Ukraine, Kyiv,
Ukraine
Shestakov V.
Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Chief of scientific department,
Zhytomyr State Technological University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
WAYS OF REDUCING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES DURING WARS AND
ARMED CONFLICTS OF MODERN TIMES. HIGH-TECH ASPECTS
Introduction. Wars kept pacing the humanity throughout its existence.
In accordance with [1], the war is a sociopolitical phenomenon, which is an
extreme form of resolving social and political, economic, ideological, and national,
religious, territorial and other crises between states, peoples, nations, classes and social
groups by means of military violence.
The main reason for wars is a clash of interests, the desire of political forces to
use armed struggle to achieve various foreign and domestic political goals.
The world history shows the clear tendency to continuous growth in their number.
Thus, for example, for the period of 15 years – since the end of 19th century to World
War I (1914-1918) - 36 wars and armed conflicts were registered (2,4 wars per year).
A hundred years later, almost 100 conflicts were recorded for such a period (10
conflicts per year) [2].
At the beginning of 2017, according to [3], there are almost two-score of armed
conflicts and wars on the planet. 28 states are involved in them directly.
Multiple researches indicate to such war tendencies and armed conflicts.
The first tendency is the expansion in the number of irregular internal armed
conflicts [3, 4]. According to the UN estimates and conclusions, over the past decade
the growth in the number of wars and armed conflicts precedes the capacity of the
international security system to prevent and relief the consequences [5-7].
The second tendency is obtaining hybrid features in wars (conflicts). According
to [8], a specific feature of such wars is a wide involvement of irregular formatted units
to confrontation that are formed from population of the country-object of aggression.
Such formations are armed, trained, sponsored, politically, informationally and legally
supported by aggressor State.
The third tendency - a major share of combat actions is carried out on highly urban
areas with a high density of population, among residential, production, recreational,
infrastructural and other objects.
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