Why We Are Losing the Cognitive War with China
Why We Are Losing the Cognitive War with China We are badly losing the ongoing Cognitive War with China, as we’ve seen their power, influence, and reach expand exponentially over the last five decades. China has badly outmaneuvered us on multiple fronts (economic, political, military, social, etc.). Unfortunately, this fact remains true despite multiple warnings over a decade, including the book The Cognitive War – Why We Are Losing and How we Can Win in 2023. But why? The recent discovery of a second illegal bioweapons lab in California with ties to China, three years after the first (I called it a depot) was accidentally discovered, gives us a clue. There are many others that I will highlight shortly. A first step to winning this war is to acknowledge our national security leaders remain unaware, unprepared, and unarmed to fight it. It is ill defined by many analysts and functional experts who wrongly link the definition of cognitive war to a specific function, where in fa...