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NEW | A Primer on Russian Cognitive Warfare: https://isw.pub/RUSCognitiveWarPrimer

Key Takeaways:

Understanding cognitive warfare is a national security requirement for the United States.

Russia is a key player in the cognitive warfare space and a model for China, Iran, and North Korea. Russia has effectively used cognitive warfare to facilitate its war in Ukraine, shape Western decision-making, obfuscate Russian objectives, preserve Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, and mask Russia’s weaknesses.

Cognitive warfare is Russia’s way of war, governance, and occupation. The goals, means, and effects of Russian cognitive warfare are far greater than disinformation at the tactical level.

The United States should not counter Russian cognitive warfare symmetrically. The key to defending against Russian cognitive warfare is doing so at the level of strategic reasoning while resisting the urge to chase Russia's tactical disinformation efforts.

This primer is the first report from ISW’s new Cognitive Warfare Task Force, which studies, visualizes, and contextualizes how adversaries use cognitive warfare to influence the US perceptions and decision-making in pursuit of their strategic goals. Read it here: https://isw.pub/RUSCognitiveWarPrimer

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This year's Roundtable’s provided a more focused discussion on the activities of conventional and special operations CA forces, regional and host nation civil-military forces, and interagency partners in theater security cooperation, deterrence, and campaign planning in their assigned theaters. Civil Affairs Command (CACOM) staff facilitated panel discussions among professionals working within the geographic combatant commands (GCCs)—AFRICOM, CENTCOM, EUCOM, SOUTHCOM, and INDOPACOM (in that order). In other words, the Roundtable went regional to go global.
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