The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military is planning to launch devastating “cognitive attacks” against the American people, according to a bombshell new report.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the armed wing of the CCP, “argues that the cognitive domain is the new focus of warfare,” a RAND Corporation researcher is warning.
The CCP’s military is studying “cognitive domain operations” to sow a mentality of defeat among American citizens.
Researchers for the PLA are engaging in “cyber-enabled influence operations” against the United States.
The goal is to influence the U.S. population to psychologically accept surrender, according to Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
“There is a group of PLA researchers, often focused on [influence operations], who argue that the cognitive domain is the new focus of warfare,” Beauchamp-Mustafaga said in a prepared testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
These cognitive domain operations (CDO) are meant to create “a psychological or cognitive decision to surrender,” he added.
Specifically, the tactics include the use of technologically enhanced propaganda such as AI-generated deepfakes, “synthetic information,” “information cocoons” and “precision cognitive attacks” to polarize the American people.
Beauchamp-Mustafaga said that by using these measures, the CCP hopes “to win a conflict