Pt. 28: Committee for Public Safety (Affirmative Defense)

"Victory will be defined more in terms of capturing the psycho-cultural rather than the geographical high ground. Understanding and empathy will be important weapons of war."

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Why It Matters:

Cognitive warfare is a structured and well considered approach to target the human cognition of individuals, groups and societies in a way that affects their decision-making processes and ultimately their behavior.

While cognitive effects are not measurable in the typical sense, they do affect how we think, what we feel and how we act using brain-centered technologies that aim to destabilize structures, create distrust, and fracture and break social cohesion, for example through amplifying pre-existing social differences in by Commander Cornelis van der Klaauw Royal Netherlands Navy Subject Matter Expert, Strategic Communications and Information Operations NATO Joint Warfare Centre "Victory will be defined more in terms of capturing the psycho-cultural rather than the geographical high ground. Understanding and empathy will be important weapons of war." Major General Robert H. Scales (Retired), Ph.D. Former Commandant of the U.S. Army War College order to undermine democracies and weaken our rule-based systems.

NATO Allied Command Transformation explains cognitive warfare as including "activities conducted in synchronization with other instruments of power to affect attitudes and behavior by influencing, protecting, or disrupting individual and group cognition to gain advantage over an adversary."

Why is it a priority for the NATO Alliance to improve its understanding of cognitive warfare? Is countering cognitive attacks actually a military task? It is. The reasoning for this can be found in Article 3 of the Washington Treaty, NATO's founding document. It establishes the principle of resilience:

"In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack."
https://www.jwc.nato.int/application/files/7216/9804/8564/CognitiveWarfare.pdf