Scientific Journal of KubSAU

What happened at the end of the last century was the technological revolution which opened new possibilities to mankind: storage and transmission of information, communication, and even selfexpression. Today the Internet has entered every home, it is used by vast majority of young people. It is a good helper for students, for fans of news, history, cinema, literature and even for everyone. The possibilities of the Internet nowadays are characterized by an abundance of informational diversity, understood as significant in quantity, varied, various, diverse, sometimes diametrically opposite information, and printed materials received by a person about the world, its history, culture and current events from multiple networks of the Internet and other media, which sometimes make difficult the orientation of the individual in search of truth, real situations and authenticity. However, the Internet has become a tool, a weapon, a tool, an instrument of information warfare, information effects on the minds and souls of citizens, and especially young people. On sites and pages of the world wide web we see an information battle. We can see lie, deception, fraud, libel, slander, etc. The goal is to subdue public opinion and the consciousness of the person, to master an audience of millions, and throw the information that is desirable to destructive forces and military hawks. Under a special sight - the spiritual sphere of the personality, morals, morality, patriotism and other values. The situation urgently requires a search for new concepts and models of moral, patriotic and military-patriotic education of Russian youth. In the article, the author proposes an innovative model of military-patriotic education of cadets of a Maritime University in terms of information diversity, allowing to build and conduct targeted educational and patriotic activities taking into account modern realities and place of information confrontation