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NDC - News-Who controls the past controls the future - How Russia uses history for cognitive warfare

Who controls the past controls the future - How Russia uses history for cognitive warfare

  • 15 Dec. 2023
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  • Last updated: 21 Jan. 2024 12:55

NDC Outlook 04


Summary

  • Russia views controlling perceptions about history as a strategic priority, for domestic regime security and external influence

  • Kinetic military operations, including the invasion of Ukraine, are designed to support this cognitive objective

  • Understanding adversary cognitive objectives provides strategic indicators and warnings of intent, and identifies critical cognitive vulnerabilities for allied joint targeting

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* (back) Quote from George Orwell, “1984”

1 (back) 2023 MINDS Fellow, NATO Defense College


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