Abstract Israel’s experience as a live laboratory for AI-enabled cognitive warfare since October 2023 offers three findings for the Small Wars Journal (SWJ) community. First, AI-driven recontextualization of authentic content has collapsed the cost of cognitive attacks to near zero. Second, Iran’s cognitive operations served a Fabian attrition strategy rather than functioning as a standalone capability. Third, Israel’s forced organizational …
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