This book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, and International Relations.

Adam Henschke is Assistant Professor with the Philosophy Section at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Information, Democracies, and Cognitive Warfare

1: On Grey Matters in Cognitive Warfare

2: The Information Age and Democracy

3: Beyond Information, Influence, and Interference

4: On Information, Intelligence, and Power

Part II: Histories of Cognitive Warfare

5: Grey Matters in International Relations: From Military Deception to Political Conflict, to Cognitive Warfare

6: Grey Matters in Domestic Activities: Subversives, Terrorists, Institutional Actors, People

7: Grey Matters in Technologies: From Terrorism to Insurrection

Part III: Ethics and Cognitive Warfare

8: Hypocrisy, Grey Matters, and Norms in Cognitive Warfare: Matters of Inconsistency and Why Inconsistency Matters

9: Foundational Moral and Political Values

10: The Limits and Futures of Cognitive Warfare

Index