https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-cognitive-war-weaponization-of-national-security/ Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Edward Haugland discusses if our national security apparatus is being weaponized against the American people. He defines Cognitive War as primarily an ideological war, between tyranny and freedom, control and independence, subjugation, and democracy. It is a war fought primarily in the cognitive domain, using various means to influence (e.g., academic, economic, agriculture, social, etc.), but which can include irregular warfare and kinetics. It is a war that’s been ongoing for more than a millennium. It is timeless as mankind exists. Cognitive War is truly an existential threat that is global and domestic. In today’s U.S.A, few understand it, can defend against it, can compete in it, or win it. It can be won, but not if we are unwilling to change. Mr. Haugland will address: 1. What is Cognitive War,