The Information Equilibrium

The Greatest Threat: Unnecessary Panic. ·          98% of Americans and world-population will feel none to minimal impacts. ·          The threat we face is expanding, but the primary threat is not the virus, (see above), it is our reaction.   o    The threat comes in many forms including disinformation, propaganda and continued variety of asymmetric measures.   o    Our adversaries seek to incite varied levels of confusion and panic, severely disrupt our economy, military deployments and readiness, destroy our citizen’s trust in government, and sow the seeds for continued chaos. The Greatest Challenges: The Cognitive War, a primarily information war, as we remain ill prepared to fight and win in the Cognitive Domain. ·          This Cognitive War is not new, nor are disinformation or other asymmetric measures. What is different is our adversaries continue to advance using a whole of nation approach, while we    continue to admire the problem. ·       

The Cognitive War – The failure to overhaul our Intelligence Community leaves democracy in doubt and tyranny unhinged There is an ongoing war taking place today – a deceivingly quiet war, yet the most deadly kind of war.   While it may involve actions in the physical and kinetic domains (e.g., soldiers and bombs respectively), it’s mostly a war of ideas and ideology.   It’s a cognitive war being fought between two fundamentally different ideologies – democracy or tyranny.   Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness   George Washington, 1796 The cognitive war pits those who seek to advance an individual’s humanity, independence and freedom against those who seek to dispose of humanity and independence to subjugate and impose tyranny on the individual.   While many understand these challenges, few understand how they are related.   Although the “2018 National Security, and Defense Security, Strategy” addresses this new character of warfare – they offer