Abstract
The term “cognition” or “cognitive science” was originally used in psychology, where it referred to human psychological processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity and thinking. Nowadays, we can see that states and non-government organisations are using more and more modern technologies, and there is an undeclared war for control over human minds in the media. Cognitive warfare is not new to the security sciences, nevertheless, the development of civilisation has brought about anew perspective on this threat, as we can now consider it to be acomprehensive strategy that combines psychological warfare, as well as information and propaganda warfare carried out through, among others, social media, in order to shape people’s views on issues such as politics, economy, or military affairs. The latter ultimately results in afavourable enemy perception and achieves ‘behaviour change’, i.e. actions in favour of the enemy. The aim of this article is to present the evolution of cognitive warfare in the contemporary security environment.
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