Cognitive Warfare

TL;DR — A NATO-adjacent study placing cognitive warfare at the end of a line running from PsyOps through cyber.

45 pages tracing the evolution of non-kinetic warfare — psychological warfare, electronic warfare, cyberwarfare, information warfare — and arguing that cognitive warfare is the distinct next category.

The claimed distinction: information warfare attacks what people know; cognitive warfare attacks how they think — targeting reasoning, attention and trust rather than facts.

⚠️ A doctrinal advocacy paper arguing for a new category, not a neutral survey. Pairs with FM 3-05.301: Psychological Operations Process — Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures and the GCHQ deck.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

45 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.