#CyberMagazine: The conflict for the Mind: The fresh Face of Global Cognitive Competition

Modern armed conflicts are moving beyond the trenches and server rooms to take place straight within people’s minds. Cognitive warfare is ceasing to be an academic concept, becoming a new, crucial dimension of global superpower rivalry. While the West focuses on protecting decision-making processes and perceptual security, China integrates cognitive operations with military pressure, and Russia uses history, values, and “cultural code” as tools of combat within the framework of alleged intellectual warfare. In this clash, the goal is no longer to change our views, but to completely destruct our ability to separate facts from manipulation. Are democratic states, which base their defence on conventional organization divisions, capable of defending their deepest social bond—social trust—against modern disinformation and neurotechnologies?