Our Minds Are Their Battlefield
February 21, 2023
“INFORMATIONÂ Operations and its subset PSYOPs, mind-superiority or information confrontation are actively being used by all sides in the emerging great war of continents. Unfortunately, for us civilians busy with daily routines and jobs, in modern 21st century mind wars, civilians are the targets of these operations. Our minds are battlefields whether we recognize it or not and whether we have adequate means of defense or not.
“Civilians are targeted in Western democracies because they elect the lawmakers, the people that determine foreign policy. The most unfortunate thing about this situation is that most western democracies haven’t caught up with this new mode of warfare and the citizens of western countries are largely left to their own for defending their minds against military-grade, psychological attacks that most might not even be aware is happening to them.
“Now that we know how Russia, China and the United States define Information Operations and the importance they assign to it, we are going to look at why it is employed. That is, what are the geopolitical objectives information operations are employed to achieve, specifically with respect to Russia?”