Titre : | Strategic Cognition War (2022) |
Type de document : | Article : Articles |
Dans : | Journal of Information Warfare (21-3, Summer 2022) |
Article en page(s) : | 10p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Résumé : |
Whilst the major strategic objectives of war have not changed for centuries, this paper posits that the physical aspects of them—such as resources, territory and influence, or coercion of populations—have been superseded by the control of social cognition in the target. This paper examines the development of Information War to a deeper level. The ‘Information Age’, spurred on by technological advances in persuasive and cognitive control, has led to strategic aims becoming the control of cognitive processes in the target’s population, where the target can be a domestic population as well as a foreign one. Also, this paper has been expanded to include systems controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and networks. These societies and the cognition created by this phenomenon are examined, and the paper speculates whether this will create a ‘social’ cognition without need for human intervention. |