Trust is a vital asset for any society that can be damaged or even destroyed by the use of various cognitive weapons
Few countries are as committed to spreading false information among their society as Russia.
Michiko Kakutani, cultural critic and author of The Death of Truth, tells how Russia uses propaganda to distract and destroy. Destroying its own people (and citizens of foreign countries) through a mass media of lies, tricking people into stopping, not resisting, and returning to their private lives.
A report from the Rand company called this action a “false fire eruption”; A relentless, high-intensity stream of falsehoods, partial truths, and sensationalized stories, promulgated with tireless aggression to obfuscate the truth, impress, and confuse anyone who tries to pay attention to it. We see this example in the US via FoxNews. Hannity, Carlson, and Ingraham are purveyors of these methods.
Cognitive war is much more than war and at the same time less than the grand strategy of one or more governments, and in fact the connection of all tools and goals during “#peace and #war” takes place in such an environment
