ABSTRACT
With the growing role of technology and information overload, individual cognitive abilities will no longer be
sufficient to ensure an informed and timely decision-making, leading to the new concept of Cognitive Warfare,
which has become a recurring term in military terminology in recent years.
Cognitive Warfare causes an insidious challenge. It disrupts the ordinary understandings and reactions to events
in a gradual and subtle way, but with significant harmful effects over time. Cognitive warfare has universal
reach, from the individual to states and multinational organisations. It feeds on the techniques of disinformation
and propaganda aimed at psychologically exhausting the receptors of information. Everyone contributes to it, to
varying degrees, consciously or sub consciously and it provides invaluable knowledge on society, especially
open societies, such as those in the West. This knowledge can then be easily weaponised. It offers NATO’s
adversaries a means of bypassing the traditional