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6/7/24: OMEGA POINT – THE ADVENT OF COGNITIVE WARFARE W/ SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Clyde Lewis
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Cognitive warfare is no longer science fiction – it is a fact and anyone, whether they are civilians or military, are potential targets. The war for the mind is not just a clever euphemism, it is a fact and it is a battlefield that can be entered in various forms such as neurolinguistic programming, electronics, and chemicals. The military concept now is to treat “cyber” as a place, not a mission. Cyberwarfare relates to fifth-generation warfare, but transcends and expands that model. NATO Allied Command defines cognitive warfare as including, “activities conducted in synchronization with other instruments of power to affect attitudes and behavior by influencing, protecting, or disrupting individual and group cognition to gain an advantage over an adversary.” Tonight on Ground Zero (7-10 pm, pacific time) Clyde Lewis talks with military analyst and writer, Sean Patrick Hazlett about OMEGA POINT – THE ADVENT OF COGNITIVE WARFARE.

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Sean Patrick Hazlett

Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He is also the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War IV anthologies and an active member of the Horror Writers Association. In graduate school, Sean assisted future Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he developed strategic options for confronting Iran’s nuclear program. For this analysis, he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sean also worked as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon, where he drew on his experience training the US military as a cavalry officer in the US Army during the Iraq and Afghan wars.

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