Why the United States Is Losing the Cognitive War - the National Security Hour with Ed Haugland

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Why the United States Is Losing the Cognitive War

In this episode, we discuss several areas related to the ongoing Cognitive War with Jonas Vesterberg. The importance of understanding how this war is being waged, the psychological operations (PsyOps) involved, how the adversaries – both global and domestic – use chaos, confusion, and terror to make others feel helpless and alone, and overloading the senses with multiple dilemmas is purposeful. Their objective has nothing to do with ideology, religion, or specific issues – those are only the ways they use to convince you to buy their utopian visions, believe they are your savior or benefactor, where they have a much more nefarious design and desired outcome – absolute power.

 Each week, we discuss varied strategic perspectives, analyses, and assessments on the ongoing Cognitive War. I’ve detailed the background and definition of this war, its underlying theory, how we should be conducting operations, and layout several seminal solutions to enable us to compete and win in this war in my just published book titled “The Cognitive War – Why We Are Losing and How We can Win” where you’ll get insights from 4 decades inside national security and why we must overhaul our national security apparatus to compete in this war with China, with Russia, and domestically with the radical progressive left.

Jonas and I discuss our recent article Who Directs America’s War on Its Own Population? In this episode, Jonas Vesterberg and I discuss the ongoing Cognitive Warfare but focus on three key areas that relate to his background and expertise:

  1. Architecture and design of enemy psyops
  1. Resisting disintegration operations
  1. Cognitive overload and pacification

Jonas Vesterberg is a journalist and political analyst with 25 years of international experience. He was born in Sweden but has spent the past two decades in the United States. Jonas has worked as an investigative reporter, linguist, communications advisor, and ghostwriter for Tier 1 and gray zone operators in Europe and the U.S., as well as one of the world’s most iconic industrialist dynasties. Jonas holds a master’s degree in political science from Lund University and studied at UNC Chapel Hill and UPV. He is currently the editor of The Florida Standard. You can find his writings here: Jonas Vesterberg – The Florida Standard (theflstandard.com), and you can read the Florida Standard The Florida Standard (theflstandard.com).

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Edward Haugland is a retired federal Senior Executive and US Air Force veteran. Ed had over four decades of service, including service as senior leader in the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, and State.

Ed served as the senior advisor to several IC agency heads, the Assistant Inspector General for Inspections for the Intelligence Community, the Chairman of CIA’s strategic planning, a Deputy team leader for the INF On-site nuclear arms inspections in the former Soviet Union, and an award-winning CIA intelligence analyst.

His four decades of experience informs analysis and solutions to “the” existential threat, to world freedom in The Cognitive War: Why We Are Losing and How We can Win.





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