Monday, April 10, 2023

China Embracing Cognitive Warfare

 

Defense One: China Gears Up for Cognitive Warfare  

Like the U.S. military, the PLA is working on wearable sensors and other ways to hone and maintain troops' fighting spirit. 

China’s military is increasingly at work on wearable technology and a dedicated psychological support system to win at what it views as the crucial space of cognitive warfare—manipulating enemy troops’ state of mind to shape their behavior and hardening its own forces against such efforts. 

“In future cognitive domain operations, the influence of rational factors such as science and logic on individual cognition is likely to be weakened, and cognitive confrontation may become a contest of emotions,” says one recent article in PLA Daily. 

“The rapid development of intelligent technology is changing the logic of information dissemination in an all-round way, making the impact of information on thinking and consciousness more profound and comprehensive, and human brain cognition has truly risen to an important field of military confrontation.”  

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WNU editor: China and the US are not the only ones getting ready for cognitive warfare .... Countering cognitive warfare: awareness and resilience (NATO).  

Update: This is why the US and other Western nations want to limit or ban TikTok .... TikTok is part of China’s cognitive warfare campaign (Nita Farahany. The Guardian).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Biden spent too much time on TikTok.

Anonymous said...

and you, playing with your dick

Anonymous said...

Yeah that was weird