A course of lectures on introduction to sociology and geopolitics of modernity. A general understanding of the modernity and the near future of class layouts in the structure of society is presented. The struggle of the main political forces, new technologies and their influence on military strategy and policy is described.

It is shown how new technologies change the structure of society, change politics, political technologies, namely its foundation.The sociological theory of modern society is presented, which gives a clear understanding of the prospects for its development, and gaining knowledge about what needs to be done for its future success and prosperity.

Lecture 1. The breakdown of the social structure as a source of threat to the world wars

Weakening of the control of global elites as a source of the threat of World War
The economics of the Automation era
Correlation of economic structure and political organization of society
The growth of class contradictions in the process of post-industrial transition
Basic concepts and definitions

Lecture 2. Russia in the context of post-industrial transition

The Class struggle in Russia in the geopolitical aspect
Declassification of industrial classes
Reformatting the world by the Corporatocracy
Today’s Russia in the context of reformatting the world

Lecture 3. Business of the reindustrialization era

Reindustrialization
Reindustrial competition
Engineering education in the era of reindustrialization
Features of business in the era of reindustrialization
Organization of reindustrialization in the CIS
Social consequences of the formation of a new industry

Lecture 4. War

Preliminary remarks
Means of war
The War of the Information Age
Productive forces and military organization
Modern Army

Lecture 5. The deployment of the world war

The beginning of the hot phase of the World War
The stabilization phase of the World War
The final phase of the World War
Military organization
Unity of production and combat process
Technological bases of the production and combat process
Military caste
Base and Elites
Tactics and strategy

Lecture 6. The war of cyber centers

Cyberwarfare: the background
of the “Red Star”
The Boyd Cycle
Cyber center in military and civilian applications
Post-information transition
Information-free wars
A new technological base and a non-democratic community

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