A War Noone is Preparing for, but it’s Already Begun!

 A War Noone is Preparing for, but it’s Already Begun!

By Edward Haugland

Daily we hear in the news how we must prepare to fight China in a kinetic war. It is a forgone conclusion as our national security officials forgo the use of cognitive skills to seek other options. This is exactly what China, Iran, Russia, and our domestic adversaries seek.

It is worse than you think. Our adversaries have four armies inside the USA – the terrorist drug cartels, the radical left fascists (BLM, Antifa, democrats), a Chinese national army of nearly 500,000 strong (300K students, 40-60K plus work visas, 100K illegals/military age men), and thirty million illegals. The enemy is within our borders, the war has already begun, as our adversaries seek to destroy, subvert, sabotage American from within without firing one shot.

We are losing badly and must wake up! Post World War II, we kept the same structure and policies for defense, foreign policy, etc. The Korean War, a stalemate, altered little. Since then, every war America has fought we have lost (i.e., Vietnam, Gulf, Afghanistan, etc.) except for one – the Cold War. In every other war we may have had kinetic successes, but lost the war, because we never won over in the cognitive domain – altering thought, will, or intent.

We won the Cold War because we understood the primary battleground was, is, and will remain predominately a battle in the cognitive domain, the domain of the human mind (e.g., human will, spirit, intent). In the Cold War we leveraged a whole of government approach to strategically communicate, a military to deter, and the economy to financially outmaneuver the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the day we declared victory and started dismantling those capabilities and capacity with the so-called peace dividend, we also lost the Cold War. We saw the oligarchs, despots, and dictators assume power and advance multiple threats and dilemmas against us including nuclear, terrorism, drugs, globalism, bioweapons, etc.

Today, our leaders remain unaware, unprepared, and unarmed in fighting this war – a Cognitive War – in which we are losing very badly. Our go to solution? Apply the kinetic hammer, the only tool in our toolbox. President Trump is trying the economic hammer, but we need more alternatives. We bankrupt the Soviet Union financially and cognitively into submission. Our adversaries are now doing the same to us, as we fund a trillion-dollar defense budget for a WWII force structure, a weak industrial base, and forgo any capabilities, capacity, or expertise to fight in the cognitive domain. The existential threat to America – is the ongoing Cognitive War, which I have detailed the definition, theory, history, analysis, and solutions in my book The Cognitive War: Why We Are Losing and How We can Win, August 2023.

For the naysayers who do not think we are already at war, let me provide a few short reminders.

-       Over one-million four-hundred thousand Americans were murdered via China Flu (Covid) and fentanyl.

-       China, Russia, and Iran embed cyber threats in our critical infrastructure (i.e., water, electrical, gas, etc.)

-       According to our SECDEF, China can sink our aircraft carriers in under a half hour.

-       China’s unhindered in subverting the US, having built an illegal bioweapons lab in California, multiple illegal police stations, hundreds of Confucious institutes, and infiltrated numerous states and local governments.

-       China uses DeepSeek, WeChat, and TikTok for reconnaissance and targeting of our social, political, military, economic, etc.

-       The terrorist cartels leverage a network with China, built over five decades, to funnel illicit arms, drugs, terrorists, trafficking, etc.

-       The radical left censored, cancelled, and attacked innocent Americans using our national security system, then leveraged the same to enable an invasion of thirty million illegals. They are accelerating their resistance to removal of illegals via occupation of cities and colleges, riotous demonstrations, antisemitic attacks, indoctrinating our youth, and protecting felons, rapists, and murderers vice Americans.

The reality is Americans live in a make-believe sanctuary, a blissful bubble, that no longer exists. Our enemies understand and have exploited that blissful ignorance to advance their subversion from within. They have studied our government, military, laws, governance, etc. and understand the seams that they can operate in to exploit our vulnerabilities. It matters not whether it is the radical left in America that is now fully exposed to their lies, as they care only about obtaining absolute power. As such, we see their leaders in congress and elsewhere abuse our foreign aid, abuse our laws, and attack those officers upholding the laws. Concurrently, we see China run circles around Congress, our military, and our national security apparatus as they keep us moving to a kinetic war which will never happen – because they will have already won.

China, Russia, Iran, and the radical left have compromised America in so many ways. Our adversaries and the radical left have a strategy that they execute methodically. We just fail to see the forest from the trees.

The problem is we are at war, but do not realize it. We need the right capacity, capabilities, and expertise to fight it. Unless that changes, we will surely lose.

Edward L. Haugland, © 2025, all rights reserved.


A version of this article was published in the Washington Times on 6/11/25 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/11/china-iran-radical-left-undermining-america-within/  and very worthy to read as well as a related article by Bill Gertz on #CognitiveWar. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/5/brain-control-warfare-chinas-bleeding-edge-strategy-winning-without/


Edward Haugland is a USAF veteran and retired senior executive with four decades serving the IC and DOD.

You can get his book on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-War-Why-Are-Losing-ebook/dp/B0CGF9SZ5Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0




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