The basics of the theory and methodology of information wars and their practical applications are presented. A system of adaptive mechanisms and their simplified models - archetypes of information wars has been developed Combinations of these mechanisms and archetypes are used for the analysis and design of complex information warfare management systems in socio-economic systems of different nature and scale - from enterprise and corporation to state and world community. The archetypes and mechanisms of information wars in the context of globalization are analyzed. The concept of intelligence has been developed. Distant mechanisms of information warfare based on self-organization of adaptation . For state and political figures, leaders of the business world and the media, scientists and specialists in the field of management, philosophy, economics and sociology, professorial and non-renewal staff and students of socio-economic departments of universities .