RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Through its publications, INSS provides rigorous, forward‑looking research and analysis on critical national security issues that support the joint warfighter and inform Department of War decision‑makers.

 

Research and Commentary

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Tag: Surveillance and Reconnaissance

An image of a brain with a target on top. By engaging the tools and techniques of the neurosciences, contemporary and near future approaches to cognitive warfare increasingly target key structures and functions of the human brain to affect thought, emotions and behaviors, essentially establishing the brain and mind as a viable and valuable battlespace.

Aug. 24, 2026

Cognitive Warfare and the Brain-as-Battlespace: Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and the Emerging Domain of Neurostrategic Competition

Introduction: The Human Brain as BattlespaceEvery competitive or conflictive human activity wields some form of power in attempt to affect behavior. Diplomacy seeks to influence it through politics; economic sanctions seek to modify it through the distribution and access of goods; military operations seek to compel it through the threat or use of