Dr. James Giordano
The contemporary battlespace is undergoing a profound transformation in its fundamental logic. As highlighted by Bill Gertz in a recent The Washington Times article reporting on Pentagon initiatives toward cognitive warfare, the United States (US) is actively exploring capabilities designed to “subdue the enemy without fighting”, emphasizing non-kinetic means that directly target human cognition as both the terrain and objective of conflict. This is not simply an evolution in tactics or the use of emergent technology.
Rather, cognitive warfare represents a decisive shift in engagement that leverages information to inform, deceive, and thereby influence the underlying neural processes that are involved in thought, emotion, and behavior (viz- functions that when taken together can be considered constitute the “mind”). In this sense, the battlespace now extends into the neurobiological substrates of the human brain~mind to affect the psychosocial dynamics of targeted individuals and collectives.
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