Cognitive-Emotional Conflict: Adversary Will and Social Resilience

Abstract

Todays information sharing tools let adversaries interfere more directly than ever with a targeted nations political processes and the minds of its citizens.1 Operating effectively in such cognitive-emotional conflict requires that information-based capabilities be employed and countered in agile, integrated ways across the military, government, and society.2 Coherent narratives tied to strategy and backed by actions are important.3 Technical cyberspace activities need to be well-coordinated with content-based approaches like military information operations, government-wide messaging, and intelligence gathering (including all forms of security).4 Even more important is to build a societys resilience against persistent, disruptive, or disinformation campaigns that aim to undermine citizen confidence and core beliefs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 21, 2017
Accession Number
AD1044678

Entities

People

  • Linton Ii Wells

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Fake News
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Governments
  • Information Warfare
  • International Organizations
  • Internet
  • National Security
  • Psychological Operations
  • Second World War
  • Social Media
  • Terrorism
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace