Abstract Cognitive warfare is often presented as a distinct form of conflict because it targets cognition, the brain, or decision-making itself, but that claim becomes weaker when the analyst can observe only the relationship between informational inputs and behavioral, attitudinal, or organizational outputs. This essay argues that the cognitive middle layer, including attention, perception, memory, emotion, belief, reasoning, and decision-making, …
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