NATO military thinkers conceived Cognitive Warfare as a strategic-level idea, proposing it as a sixth domain of operations alongside air, land, sea, space, and cyber. This concept aims to replace "hybrid" in British strategic thinking, subsume information and psychological operations, and integrate cognitive strategy into civilian government institutions.
Historically, the Soviet military developed "reflexive control" in the 1970s, using information operations to influence enemy logic. In 2013, Russian general Valery Gerasimov proposed combining kinetic and information operations to collapse states. While "hybrid" warfare, adopted by NATO in 2014, views non-military means as adjuncts to kinetic conflict at an operational level, Cognitive Warfare, defined by NATO ACT in 2023, focuses on influencing individual and group cognitions to gain advantage. China, under Xi Jin Ping, also foregrounds strategic information operations. NATO now incorporates agentic AI into this framework, though the UK remains reluctant to adopt the cognitive warfare concept, particularly in political, economic, and civil society spheres.
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