{"id":6686,"date":"2023-12-17T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2025-01-04T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T09:21:20","slug":"cognitive-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2023\/12\/17\/cognitive-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"421: COGNITIVE WARFARE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cognitive warfare is not only an attack on\u00a0what we think. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It is an attack on our way of thinking.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pic: Courtesy Internet<\/span><\/p>\n

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The human mind is the paramount battleground in modern warfare and cognitive warfare has emerged as an unparalleled domain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Defining Cognitive Warfare<\/u>. Cognitive Warfare is a psychological strategy that focuses on altering how a target population thinks and through that how it acts. This strategy intends to gradually influence the targeted public’s beliefs, opinions, and perceptions about a subject, such as an event, a politician, a government, or an ideology in general. It is the weaponisation of public opinion, by an external entity, to influence public and governmental policy and destabilise public institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Genesis<\/u>. Cognitive warfare is a development that has emerged from prior related non-kinetic forms of warfare, such as PsyOps operations and Information Warfare. Information warfare is aimed at manipulating what people believe to be true and thereby swaying public perceptions. A more organised and advanced form of information warfare is cognitive warfare.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Catalysts<\/u>. Cognitive warfare relies heavily on new communication and information technologies, notably AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Key features<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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