The Information Equilibrium

https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-cognitive-coup-de-main-of-america/ Unless we adjust our future to account for the paradigm shifts that have occurred under our feet, our nation and its intelligence operations will once again awaken too late, to a different reality, which is likely to end badly with significant and long-term impacts to our nation’s security and place as world leader. Read the full article at link above. The reality is America is no longer a sanctuary, we are extremely vulnerable here in the USA, as our enemies have infiltrated our homeland extensively! I spent over 40yrs in national security, and today our national security apparatus is the most vulnerable it has ever been,  because few understand #CognitiveWar as the true existential threat!

 I write these articles to sound the warning to our national security leaders. We are in the midst of a major war, taking place both domestically and globally. It is a Cognitive War for which our leaders remain unaware, unprepared, and unarmed. I hope you will read and pass this onto others, members of Congress, or members of our national security apparatus and this Administration.  My warning remains unanswered! Unless we adjust our future to account for the paradigm shifts that have occurred under our feet, our nation and its intelligence operations will once again awaken too late, to a different reality, which is likely to end badly with significant and long-term impacts to our nation’s security and place as world leader. I project such a negative and reactive outcome to occur either because we lost the cognitive war totally, our adversaries succeed undermining our institutions and democratic foundation to such an extent they are no longer viable, or, because our efforts to...

  How the Iran war blurs mind and battlefield - America Out Loud News The intricacies of Cognitive Warfare are quite complex as eloquently elaborated by Edward Haugland in his book “ The Cognitive War: Why We Are Losing and How We Can Win ”: “[It is} Primarily an ideological war between tyranny and freedom, control and independence, subjugation and democracy…In its most basic form, it is a war against good and evil…[it] can and does include irregular warfare and kinetics.” The characteristics vary based upon the “theater” of activities, as the world’s attention is now focused upon the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.  There clearly is a “hybrid” dynamic at play currently of cognitive and kinetic components, as Mr. Haugland notes: “One challenge is denying, disrupting, and proactively superseding the global front of propaganda, false images, and narratives of Iran, Russia, and China, driving fear, economic reaction, and creating doubt.” These statements highlight not only the sub...

  https://www.americaoutloud.news/endgame-for-the-iran-war-dhs-funding-new-world-order/ President Trump says we are “Very Close to Meeting Iran Objectives.” As Trump weighs the options to open the Strait of Hormuz, Americans are asking what the endgame is in the war with Iran? DHS shutdown stretches to over 35 days as Democrats block funding bill. Elon Musk offers to pay TSA workers’ salaries amid DHS budget standoff.  Edward Haugland, Bruce Robertson,  and  Nate Cain  will answer the question: Is Donald Trump a genius or a fool? … A great discussion with Malcolm, Bruce, and Nate! 

  Iran and the Forgotten Cognitive Front There are two fronts in every war – one kinetic, one cognitive. The kinetic front is obvious, the cognitive not so. We will succeed on the kinetic front in the Iran war in the next few weeks, but what happens on the cognitive front will be the determining factor of success or failure. The cognitive front is fought to influence will, support, and ideology. It is the forgotten front, as our decades being mired in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated. We must understand how, and if, we are impacting the cognitive front against the Iranian leadership, military, and their supporters, their citizens, and our own citizens. Unfortunately, we have many challenges to overcome. One challenge, is denying, disrupting, and proactively superseding the global front of propaganda, false images and narratives of Iran, Russia, and China driving fear, economic reaction, and creating doubt. Success could severely diminish resolve amongst Iranians to rise up and ...

  https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-iran-war-all-roads-lead-to-the-ccp/ Dr. Li-Meng Yan engages with me, Edward Haugland, in an in-depth discussion of the Iran war. Dr. Yan’s weekly show is well worth listening to. I’ve engaged with her multiple times over the last three years as she gives great insights into the CCP and their efforts in this ongoing #CognitiveWar.  As a physician and virologist who has spent years studying respiratory viruses, I watch the current global scramble and feel a deep alarm. The pandemic taught us that pathogens do not respect borders. What followed taught us that geopolitics and supply chains can be weaponized. Critical minerals and microelectronics underpin vaccines, diagnostics, and biosafety equipment. When those flows are concentrated in one place, we trade cheap goods for fragile security. We also learned that information is now as dangerous as an agent in a vial. Israel and US sources have also confirmed that Iran is producing domestic...

Image created by Grok AI Using the Veil Religion to Advance Tyranny We are in a war in which our enemies use the veil of religion to seize power. Few understand this war in which past losses resulted in hundreds of millions of innocents being murdered, tortured, imprisoned or living for decades to centuries under tyranny. The use of religion to seize power is ancient in concept – and often uses one of two approaches. One is to attack or vilify a religion to advance tyranny. The other, to use the veil of religion to hide insidious efforts to advance tyranny. The genius (and danger) in using religion, in this perpetual cognitive war, is its subtlety. There are no tanks in the streets. Rather, memes, sermons, rhetoric, and false narratives and manufactured victims are employed using our cognitive biases (e.g., emotion, moral outrage) that erode shared reality over time. Understanding this, the KGB during the Cold War, conducted varied operations to compromise religious and other leaders t...

  Listen, learn, act!  https://rumble.com/v75zje4-psyops-america.html PsyOps in America - The #CognitiveWar The Lion’s Den hosted by Dr. Bill Lionberger with Ultra Analyst Mary Fanning and retired Intelligence Community and Department of Defense executive Edward Haugland.  Can America survive the infiltration of our enemies? How do we fight back in a war that is taking place globally and domestically in which our leaders remain unaware, unprepared, and unarmed? Given there are already four armies inside America (the Terrorist Cartels, nearly 500,000 Chinese Nationals, the radical left armies of Antifa BLM etc., and 30 plus illegal aliens) it is time to understand this war before it’s too late. Our nation is already invaded and infiltrated, this discussion calls out this reality and so much more. @AmericanReport @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio @SusieWiles @LauraIngraham  https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-War-Why-Are-Losing/dp/B0CGKYKLPL

  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/15/rubio-us-defend-renew-western-civilization-ready-alone-europe-wont/ The West must be ready- Russia, Iran, China as the dominos will fall? Putin will be killed, as will the Ayatollah, and XI. The axis of evil will find their safe havens getting too small,for each demon. We must penetrate Russia’s information environment and advance the flow of truth and facilitate the critical collaboration necessary for collapse. The youth in Russia will find there is much to gain, nothing to lose in assassinating Putin. The USA should assist in indirect ways and covertly. Iran will be hit, their military and leadership, the Ayatollah will try to flee but be killed escaping or by the uprising. Regardless, his days are numbered too. Xi, fat, unhealthy, and of small mind and manhood has outsmarted himself by his actions. Like Russia, the USA needs to be proactive in penetrating China’s information environment and facilitate the inevitable. Xi, like a...

  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/14/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-critically-important-speech-to-munich-security-conference/ @SecRubio well done! You and @realDonaldTrump asked the question “what exactly are we defending, because armies do not fight for abstractions.” …Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation.  Armies fight for a way of life.  And that is what we are defending. What’s missing from this answer is most critical. Armies cannot fight a war they don’t understand. The most critical war we are fighting but fail to understand is the ongoing #Cognitivewar.   The fight to stop communism, fix the climate hoax, outsourcing, cultural decline, and mass immigration can’t be stopped by physical or kinetic force, only by cognitive understanding and action. The west is at war with China, but it is a #CognitiveWar, that few understand, are prepared for, or armed cognitively.  This administration, to win this war, must understan...

  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...

Video created on Grok AI https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/9/america-losing-cognitive-war-china/ Article appeared in Washington Times 10 February 2026.  Copyright © 2026 The Washington Times, LLC. illustration by Linas Garsys  America losing the cognitive war with China - Beijing exploits ideology, academia, technology and chaos inside the U.S. By Edward Haugland  -   Monday, February 9, 2026 OPINION: We are losing the ongoing cognitive war with  China  — badly. Beijing’s power, influence and reach have expanded exponentially over the past five decades. It has outmaneuvered us on multiple fronts (economic, political, military, social, etc.). Unfortunately, this fact remains true despite multiple warnings over a decade. But why? The recent discovery of a second illegal bioweapons lab in California with ties to  China , some three years after the first, gives us a clue. A first step to winning this war is to acknowledge that our national sec...