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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: âCognitive warfareâ: why the human brain should not become a battlefield
Description: Militaries are gearing up for confrontation on a new battlefield: the human brain.
While psychological operations aimed at deceiving enemies or manipulating soldiers and civilian populations have long been part of the military playbook, âcognitive warfareâ marks a conceptual shift in which human cognition is framed as a âsixth domainâ of military competition, alongside land, sea, air, cyber, and space.
In this post, ICRC Policy Adviser Pierrick Devidal offers an overview of the concept of âcognitive warfareâ and examines the humanitarian concerns it raises. He argues that if our brains are to be treated as future battlefields, now is the time to cons...