title: Cognitive Warfare
abstract: Military powers have consolidated in the last two decades a way to erase the boundaries between peacetime and crisis and wage a continuous war. Cognitive warfare (CW) has been proposed as the most advanced form to-date of manipulation of behaviour at mass scale in order to gain tactical or strategic advantage. Instead of the corpse-ridden battlefields of kinetic warfare, the theater of operations of CW is the human mind, and therein operations are realised on the fields of perception, emotion an