Cognitive Warfare, Neuro Weapons, Mind Domain

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https://smashleft.com/documents/Cognitive%20Warfare.pdf
https://www.lachainehumaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/du-cluzel-guerre-cognitive.pdf
https://www.innovationhub-act.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/20210113_CW
Final v2 .pdf

Executive Summary
As written in the Warfighting 2040 Paper, the nature of warfare has
changed. The majority of
current conflicts remain below the threshold of the traditionally
accepted definition of warfare,
but new forms of warfare have emerged such as Cognitive Warfare (CW),
while the human
mind is now being considered as a new domain of war.
With the increasing role of technology and information overload,
individual cognitive abilities
will no longer be sufficient to ensure an informed and timely
decision-making, leading to the
new concept of Cognitive Warfare, which has become a recurring term in
military terminology
in recent years.
Cognitive Warfare causes an insidious challenge. It disrupts the
ordinary understandings and
reactions to events in a gradual and subtle way, but with significant
harmful effects over time.
Cognitive warfare has universal reach, from the individual to states
and multinational organi-
sations. It feeds on the techniques of disinformation and propaganda
aimed at psychologically
exhausting the receptors of information. Everyone contributes to it,
to varying degrees, con-
sciously or sub consciously and it provides invaluable knowledge on
society, especially open
societies, such as those in the West. This knowledge can then be
easily weaponised. It offers
NATO's adversaries a means of bypassing the traditional battlefield
with significant strategic
results, which may be utilised to radically transform Western societies.
The instruments of information warfare, along with the addition of
"neuro-weapons" adds to
future technological perspectives, suggesting that the cognitive field
will be one of tomorrow's
battlefields. This perspective is further strengthened in by the rapid
advances of NBICs (Nan-
otechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive
Sciences) and the under-
standing of the brain. NATO's adversaries are already investing
heavily in these new technol-
ogies.
NATO needs to anticipate advances in these technologies by raising the
awareness on the true
potential of CW. Whatever the nature and object of warfare, it always
comes down to a clash
of human wills, and therefore what defines victory will be the ability
to impose a desired be-
haviour on a chosen audience. Actions undertaken in the five domains -
air, land, sea, space
and cyber - are all executed in order to have an effect on the human
domain. It is therefore time
for NATO to recognise the renewed importance of the sixth operational
domain, namely the
Human Domain.