Col. (Ret.) Guy Itzhaki, former Chief of the Consciousness Department, IDF, and ICT Fellow sheds\u2026<\/p>\n
Col. (Ret.) Guy Itzhaki, former Chief of the Consciousness Department, IDF, and ICT Fellow sheds light on Cognitive Warfare in the \u201cSwords of Iron\u201d Era and how Israel must fight this battlefield:<\/p>\n
Alongside kinetic operations, adversaries led by Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah conducted a sophisticated cognitive campaign targeting public trust, social cohesion, and state legitimacy. Advanced tools \u2014 AI-generated media, automated persuasion, chatbots, and coordinated bot networks \u2014 enabled real-time narrative dominance, emotional amplification, and the spread of unverified claims long before facts could stabilize the information space.<\/p>\n
This exposed a structural vulnerability: centralized, slow-moving public diplomacy struggling against decentralized, agile influence networks, while internal political and social divisions were actively exploited. The lesson is clear: cognitive warfare must be treated as a top-tier strategic domain.<\/p>\n
Israel needs a national cognitive architecture \u2014 including an empowered Cognitive and Influence Authority, early-warning systems for hostile narratives, and systematic investment in societal cognitive resilience through media literacy and unifying narratives.<\/p>\n
Within the defense establishment, it must be recognized as an operational domain, embedded into planning, doctrine, and assessment, and supported by dedicated professional tracks and rapid-response cognitive task forces operating under clear ethical boundaries.<\/p>\n
In an era where every citizen carries a broadcast device and every local event can become a global cognitive weapon within minutes, perception and public trust have become decisive battlegrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Col. (Ret.) Guy Itzhaki, former Chief of the Consciousness Department, IDF, and ICT Fellow sheds\u2026 Col. (Ret.) Guy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-271285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}