Commentary
Warfare is about imposing one’s will on another or resisting the imposition of another’s will. So warfare has always been decided primarily in military “information dominance,” which specialists call “the cognitive domain.”
It is true now more than ever when the most effective tools of warfare are there in instant social media to undermine people’s will to resist or galvanize them into a certain form of mass psychosis: a sort of mass belief system that ensures uniformity of thought.
Not surprisingly, perception dominance is communist China’s principal strategic tool.
Its adversaries offer no defense; they are saved to some degree merely by the reality that Beijing is an imperfect practitioner of the art….