Information Operations

The theory of reflexive control

Reflexive control theory seeks to guide the target unconsciously in a predefined manner and often against their own interests. This can be done by influencing the enemy's information channels and sending messages that change the flow of information in the adversary's favor. An adversary makes a decision by acting in a manipulated information space, provoking emotional responses  People, commercial organizations, and information security groups are susceptibility to reflexive control is largely due to uncontrolled access…

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Trust Erosion in Cognitive Warfare

Trust is a critical asset that can be damaged or completely destroyed through a variety of applied cognitive weapons such as social media. People or institutions that seek to destroy this trust first identify major gaps in the target society and then intensify them in a way that causes distrust towards the honesty and motivation of others in society. https://cybershafarat.com/2022/12/07/cognitive-warfare/ Research studies in the field of cognitive hybrid warfare show that intelligence operations will necessarily…

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Hybrid Warfare Integration across STEMPLES Plus

In simple words, hybrid war can be the attack of an entity (either government or faction) towards the opposite opponent by using non-kinetic tools of power such as "economy, politics, culture, information and cyber (STEMPLES Plus)" with the intention of creating and obtaining a strategic result. https://cybershafarat.com/2021/05/06/what-the-f-is-stemples-plus/ Cognitive warfare must be effectively integrated across land, sea, air, space, and cyber operations and then delivered through a hybrid think tank.Undoubtedly, coordination between cognitive warfare and other…

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The Context of Cognitive Warfare

In the context of cognitive warfare, disinformation is information that is intentionally created to harm or manipulate a "person, social group, organization, or country," while disinformation is false information that is created without intent to harm. https://cybershafarat.com/2023/01/21/intelligence-tradecraft-operator-cyber-cognitive-warfighter-training-2/ Hybrid tactics create instability, destroy institutions, fuel political polarization, and destroy coexistence and consensus.The special importance of the media in legitimizing the "ideology of the movement and protests is actually to make them look authentic and also to…

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Iran Maintains its False Belief in A Dead Terrorist

In their own words Adhering to the school of Martyr Soleimani is the way to deal with the enemy's combined  The "Political Talk" program of Radio Talk talked about the subject of Martyr Soleimani's school and the requirements of field control in the enemy's combined war against the Islamic Revolution, with the presence of Dr. Mohammad Hossein Ghorbani Zavareh, an expert on strategic issues and combined and cognitive warfare.Mohammad Hossein Ghorbani Zawareh spoke about the…

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Intelligence Tradecraft Operator – Cyber Cognitive Warfighter training

WASHINGTON DULLES - 3/20-24 CYBER COGNITIVE WARFIGHTER COURSE OPSEC methods, online anonymity, persona creation and management with Myers-Briggs, the Big 5, the Dark Triad/Pitch Black Tetrad, the Psychological Techniques of the Seven Radicals, the Nine Enneagram Type, cyber HUMINT tactics, campaign development, management, and execution. // Adversary targeting with cyber D3A/F3EAD, PIRs, OSINT, Darknet. // Information warfare, counterintelligence deception methods, conspiracy theories, cyber color revolutions, Russian/Chinese/Iranian Cyber Warfare models, and cyber psychological operations, Cognitive war…

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INTELLIGENCE TRADECRAFT OPERATOR – CYBER COGNITIVE WARFIGHTER TRAINING

Atlanta ATL South - 2/20-24/2023 and Washington Dulles - 3/20-24/2023 CYBER COGNITIVE WARFIGHTER COURSEOPSEC methods, online anonymity, persona creation and management with Myers-Briggs, the Big 5, the Dark Triad/Pitch Black Tetrad, the Psychological Techniques of the Seven Radicals, the Nine Enneagram Type, cyber HUMINT tactics, campaign development, management, and execution. // Adversary targeting with cyber D3A/F3EAD, PIRs, OSINT, Darknet. // Information warfare, counterintelligence deception methods, conspiracy theories, cyber color revolutions, Russian/Chinese/Iranian Cyber Warfare models, and…

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Fundamentals of information warfare. Part 1: Fox News, Tucker Carlson

The Cynic Основы информационной войны Fundamentals of information warfare. Part 1: Fox News, Tucker Carlson... The time has come to reveal a little the essence of information-psychological wars on the examples of the war in Ukraine, as well as some historical moments that require explanation. The rubric will appear periodically, simultaneously with the emergence of informational occasions or controversial issues in a particular context. Zelensky's trip to Washington has become quite symbolic in the context…

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Russian Narratives changing as the «victorious» occupying forces were retreating

Specialists of the Center for Countering Disinformation identified 7 main directions and examined in chronological order the change in the rhetoric of the main propagandists and mass media in Russia.

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