Purpose. The purpose of the article is to investigate the influence of geopolitical factors on the military security of Russia in the modern era of confrontation between civilizations, when the strategic goals of the leading world powers are implemented and achieved taking into account geopolitical interests. To achieve this goal, we study the main factors that underlie the modern system of international security and international relations: the structural crisis of the unipolar world, the civilizational confrontation and the associated increase in the military threat, the annihilation of national identity due to globalization carried out under the auspices and pressure of the United States.

Methods. The research methodology includes the use of dialectical, historical-logical and historical-comparative methods, as well as specific-political methods (situational analysis, event analysis, expert evaluation method).

Results. To assess the impact of modern geopolitical factors on the security of the Russian state, the article considers the modern evolutionary stage of the essential nature of war, which takes place at the junction of the geopolitical crisis, the growth of the military threat, the destruction of national identity and civilizational confrontation. The main factors forming the existing system of international relations and the system of world security are also determined.

Summary. In the era of civilizational confrontation geopolitical claims must be properly formulated and justified. The resolution of the existing contradictions is carried out now, first of all, by the methods of information warfare, but sometimes by real military actions, the possibility of which should be minimized. In the modern era, there is a qualitatively new synthesis of military and non-military, primarily information and political, means to protect geopolitical interests.