Toward the Knowledge skills and Abilities (KSAs) of Cognitive Resilience

• In cognitive warfare, the human mind becomes the battlefield. The aim is to change not only what people think, but how they think and act. Waged successfully, it shapes and influences individual and group beliefs and behaviors to favor an aggressor’s tactical or strategic objectives.
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• -NATO
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• This kind of warfare is begin waged at all populations, especially inside of Western Liberal Democracies Western Liberal Democracies (WLDs). continuously. 
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• Most of us are unaware

Cognitive Resilience is an essential survival skill for the 21st century. There are deliberate and unintended consequences of our activites that assuault our abilitty to think, maked ecsion, 

About Cognitive Warfare

1.  There is a field of Study in Psychology and Neuroscience about Resilience, which includes Cognitive Resilience- unrelate to warfare - that is about recovery from difficulty and injury.
2. Cognitive warfare seems to be loosely thrown in as a subset of information warfare as taught by Media and information types -all mention  the importance of  but do not adress any methods to strengthen cognitive Resilience.
3. Western militaries around the world, and NATO, and Anti-western military cooperation groups have developed warfighting doctrine which includes the concept of Cognitive warfare they call Cogwar. they have developed both Offensive and defensive doctrine and tactics. -all mention  the importance of  but do not adress any methods to strengthen cognitive Resilience
4. This warfare is ongoing now, and has been for 15 or 20 years everywhere
5. Aimed internally by authoritarian states to manage the beliefs and thinking of their own populations.
6. Aimed xternally at non-military nations, subgroups, military types, religious and political groups, different age demographics 
7. It appears about 1/3 of any population is highly susceptible to cognitive warfare.

About the state of  ongoing Wars

1. There are Nation states which make no conceptual division between war and peace. 
2. Some have chosen to band together to resist Western liberal Democracy and their cultural  features.
3. There is, at least, an informal and or opportunistic coordination between these groups, 
1. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea
2. Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, 
3. They are reaching out to states in Africa
1. CAR
2. Niger
3. South Africa
4. Cognitive warfare is underway in those countries to expand their world Views, including starting Russian Style Troll Farms in Africa, to make their Cogwar more culturally appropriate- we have seen those accounts being trained regarding Ulraine war, and aimed at recruiting foreign fighters to be used in Ukraine
4. Western Liberal Democracies, (WLDs) except for the military and security services, havenot grasped that This group is already at war with us, according to their definitions of war.

About WLDs aiming Cogwar at its own people

1. Cogwar is aimed internally during election cycles, and they are having more impact every US federal cycle. How these activities are funded and what they are doing needs transparency
2. informal grass roots troll networks are emerging with their own sometimes competing agendas
3. This is in addition to the Cogwar aimed at WLD populations from external actors
4. There is an interaction that occurs when candidates and parties create competing platforms, that external Cogwar Agents amplify into raging divergent opposition within the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_Arta

Conclusion so far

While I hope that there are classified Cognitive Resilience Developments (CRD) underway with Military members who are working in this area ,there appear to be no structural CRD efforts underway as of 5-29-24

our WLD populations are currently largely defenseless against Cogwar assaults, and about a third of us are highly vulnerable to foreign adversaries that have chosen to be at war with us without notice, and without our knowledge.

Next Steps

There is a great need for a simple cross cultural model of skill sets and low resource methods for developing CRD practices.

Next Steps

1. Develop a a simple cross cultural set of Knowledges, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) for Cognitive Resilience
2. Invest in promotion and practice
3. Incorporate these KSAs into Compliance Domains that are already built for Skill development
• OSHA
• Work Place compliance practices
• Justice Practices
• Title IX requirements
• Education Curriculum
• Professional Continuing Education curriculum,
• Human Resources
• Teachers
• Leadership training
• Military and First responder training
• Leadership training 

• WLDs  have a smattering of informal, disconnected Cognitive Resilience initiatives in development coming from:
• Grass Roots social networks
• Academics

https://www.afghanistantimes.af/awareness-the-only-way-to-counter-cognitive-warfare/

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2024/02/06/why-cognitive-superiority-is-an-imperative/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_(situational_awareness_system)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.809003/full