The fight for your mind already started. Most people never see it.
In The Mind Domain: A Practitioner’s Doctrine for Cognitive Operations and AI-Era Influence, I lay out how state actors shape what populations believe, fear, and do. Not theory. Tradecraft. The kind built over decades in the field, written for people who have to spot an influence operation while it runs — and answer it.
The book sits where People Intelligence meets Narrative Intelligence. It shows how Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea run their playbooks, each with its own proxies and its own tells. Russia leads by a wide margin. I name the cases. I name the methods.
AI changed the tempo. Machines now write, target, and flood at a speed no human cell ever matched. I walk through what that means for the operator and the defender, and where the human still holds the edge.
You get frameworks you put to work the next morning — STEMPLES Plus for reading an adversary, Cultural Nexus for mapping the human terrain. You get real cases, ranked evidence, and a clean line between verified fact and adversary claim.
Twenty-three chapters. Nine parts. One argument: the mind is the terrain now, and the side that reads it first wins.
Written for intelligence professionals, cyber operators, analysts, and anyone who refuses to be an easy target.
Available soon in hardcover and Kindle.
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d Domain — Jeffrey Bardin. East 71st Tradecraft Publishing.
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