The Department of Geography and Geographical Information Systems at the Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, organized a symposium entitled “Egyptian National Security and its Relationship to Information War”, where the faculty hosted under the patronage of Prof. Colonel Hatem Saber, expert in combating international terrorism and information warfare, and advisor to the President of the University for Security Affairs, where he stressed that the national security equation is to provide needs and freedoms, which leads to achieving stability, stressing that the countries of the world seek to achieve that equation, noting that national security is a strength The state must protect its own entity, and that the two wings of the Egyptian national security are the armed forces and the police, and that national security is based on awareness, understanding and awareness, and the existence of a strategy for the state to secure its resources and strategic planning for scenarios to confront all threats and challenges.

As for the national level, Colonel Hatem Saber said that economic deprivation is due to the tyranny of the ruling groups and the separatist revolution, and with regard to the international level, it is due to some countries’ sponsorship of terrorism and the creation of hotbeds of tension in the Middle East and attempts to partition to establish the Greater State of Israel and unfair international situations.

Colonel Hatem Saber added that there are five generations of wars, the first of which is the traditional war, which is between two regular armies and takes place in a specific battlefield between two armies of two countries. And he completed his sovereignty with regard to the second generation of wars, which are guerrilla wars and terrorist organizations in the face of a regular army, and the third generation is preventive war, which is preemptive and preventive war, then the fourth generation of terrorism is psychological and advanced operations in the use of comprehensive state forces such as sit-ins, rebels, and acts of violence against society. Finally, the fifth generation, which is the occupation of your mind, not the occupation of your land, and proxy war in favor of international bodies and organizations through hot dismantling using advanced technology, the expansion of the use of suicide operations, ambushes, attrition and fatigue of armies, and the replacement of the slogans of democracy and human rights with the rights of minorities and sectarian slogans.

Colonel Hatem Saber indicated that the motives of terrorism are psychological, material and ideological.

The symposium was attended by many faculty staff, the teaching assistants and the students of the faculty.