Cognitive Warfare Quotes

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

I do believe that Russia did and will continue to try and manipulate Americans' perspective on a whole variety of issues.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

Thinking is my fighting.

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.