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CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article

Front. Big Data
Sec. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Volume 7 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fdata.2024.1452129
This article is part of the Research Topic Disinformation Countermeasures and Artificial Intelligence View all articles

Cognitive Warfare: A Conceptual Analysis of the NATO ACT Cognitive Warfare Exploratory Concept

Provisionally accepted
Christoph Deppe Christoph Deppe *Gary S. Schaal Gary S. Schaal
  • Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany

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    This study evaluates NATO ACT's cognitive warfare concept from a political science perspective, exploring its utility beyond military applications. Despite its growing presence in scholarly discourse, the concept's interdisciplinary nature has hindered a unified definition. By analyzing NATO's framework, developed with input from diverse disciplines and both military and civilian researchers, this paper seeks to assess its applicability to political science. It aims to bridge military and civilian research divides and refine NATO's cognitive warfare approach, offering significant implications for enhancing political science research and fostering integrated scholarly collaboration.

    Keywords: Cognitive Warfare1, disinformation2, nato3, Hybrid Threats4, concept analysis5

    Received: 20 Jun 2024; Accepted: 16 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Deppe and Schaal. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Christoph Deppe, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany

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