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Cognitive Domain Monitoring, Analysis and
Control
By Fernando Escudero, Marketing and Communications, ISID
The importance of cognitive dominance
The information domain has always been of great importance in conflicts, both armed and unarmed. But
especially since the Cold War and the emergence of the internet in the early 1990s, along with the advent
of mobile technology and simple encryption, the conflict paradigm has changed substantially.
The complexity of 4th generation conflicts, which have become more decentralized than before, has
opened up wider and more varied fronts in which it is necessary to engage, in order to control the
development of the conflict. Mobile phones and social networks represent an extremely powerful tool for
the population to make its opinion known, but they also allow general sentiment to be influenced, if
appropriate techniques are employed. Along with the traditional domains of land, sea, air and space (the
latter is a recent addition), the cognitive domain is developed in cyberspace and the "weaponry" used is
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