{"id":13752,"date":"2023-12-15T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/who-controls-the-past-controls-the-future-how-russia-uses-history-for-cognitive-warfare-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:41:10","slug":"who-controls-the-past-controls-the-future-how-russia-uses-history-for-cognitive-warfare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/who-controls-the-past-controls-the-future-how-russia-uses-history-for-cognitive-warfare-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who controls the past controls the future &#8211; How Russia uses history for cognitive warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\n<ul class=\"list_homepage\">\n<li>\nNDC Outlook 04-2023: <em><a href=\"\/fr\/download\/downloads.php\/?icode=811\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to download (pdf)\">Who controls the past controls the future<\/a> <a href=\"#_edn0\" name=\"_ednref0\" title=\"\" class=\"sup\" >*<\/a><a href=\"\/fr\/download\/downloads.php\/?icode=811\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to download (pdf)\"> &#8211; How Russia uses history for cognitive warfare<\/a><\/em>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/about\/organization.php\/?icode=185\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Shultz<\/a> <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\" title=\"\" class=\"sup\" >1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\n<strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nRussia views controlling perceptions about history as a strategic priority, for domestic regime security and external influence\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>\nKinetic military operations, including the invasion of Ukraine, are designed to support this cognitive objective\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>\nUnderstanding adversary cognitive objectives provides strategic indicators and warnings of intent, and identifies critical cognitive vulnerabilities for allied joint targeting\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\"><a href=\"\/fr\/download\/downloads.php\/?icode=811\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to download (pdf)\"><br \/>\nDownload the publication<\/a> to keep reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\n<hr style=\"height:1px; color:#e6e6e6;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller; color: darkslategrey ; margin-top:-1em;\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"edn0\">\n        <sup>*<\/sup> <span class=\"np\"><a href=\"#_ednref0\" name=\"_edn0\" class=\"Subs\" >(back)<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Quote from George Orwell, \u201c1984\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"edn1\">\n        <sup>1<\/sup> <span class=\"np\"><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\" class=\"Subs\" >(back)<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>2023 MINDS Fellow, NATO Defense College\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"height:1px; color:#e6e6e6;\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\"><span class=\"np\"><a href=\"\/fr\/research\/research.php\/?icode=6\" target=\"_blank\">More Research Division Publications&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>NDC Public Affairs Office<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDC Outlook 04-2023: Who controls the past controls the future * &#8211; How Russia uses history for cognitive<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-13752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"modified_by":null,"author_meta":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"featured_img":null,"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","morenews-featured":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"relative_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 3 ans il y a","modified":"Mis \u00e0 jour 6 mois il y a"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le d\u00e9cembre 15, 2023","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le d\u00e9cembre 15, 2023 07:30","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026 09:41"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13752"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=13752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}