Cognitive Warfare, Pentagon’s New Battlefield Is YOU
Detachment 201 marked a turning point. Four of the most influential tech executives—Palantir, OpenAI, ThinkingLabs, and Meta—were drafted into the Army Reserves, not as foot soldiers, but as Lieutenant Colonels. Now, they’ve been placed at the helm of the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), leading a program with a name that should make us all pause: Cognitive Warfare.
The stated mission is stark—“to disrupt the cognition and the thinking ability of an adversary or person of influence.” In plain terms, this is weaponized psychology, engineered by the very companies that already…
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