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• Understanding China's Approach to Cognitive Warfare with Josh Baughman from China's Aerospace Studies Institute

  • When
    05/23/2024
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Capital City Club | 7 John Portman Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA
  • Spaces left
    70

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  Photo Credit: Imagine China Photo Agency

  Understanding China's Approach to Cognitive Warfare

  with

  Josh Baughman

  China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

  The ultimate victory for the People's Liberation Army (PLA)  is to destroy an adversary's will to fight. PLA strategists believe, “Military confrontation, on the surface, is a confrontation between the hard powers of the two sides, but at a deeper level, no matter what the nature of the war and the purpose, it is ultimately a contest of human will”.  The ultimate determinate in which “human will” is fought is in the cognitive domain, wherein the mind is the main battleground. While the cognitive domain has existed since the very first conflicts of mankind, the PLA sees the power in the nexus of mind and technology to shape the cognitive battlefield. Particularly, social media, the metaverse, smartphone apps, wearable technology, virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (especially generative AI), digital twins, and the future of brain-computer interface technology will all play a role in the success of the PLA in the cognitive domain. The importance of the cognitive domain follows the PLA’s operational concept of “system-of-systems warfare.” The mind is the key node in a system and thus, the ultimate goal in both “system destruction” of an adversary and “system survival” of the PLA. The United States and its allies must understand how China will use technology in the cognitive domain or any future wars could be lost before they begin. 
  

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  Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024

  Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.

  
  

  Venue: Capital City Club (downtown)

                    7 John Portman Blvd NW

                    Atlanta, GA 30303

  
  

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  Joshua D. Baughman ("Josh") currently serves as an analyst at Air University’s China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). His research centers on China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) activity in the cyber and information domain, as well as work on the PLA Rocket Force. He guest lectures at the National Defense University and Institute of World Politics on topics such as China’s cyber strategy and misinformation efforts. He presents and publishes regularly, and has received international recognition for his work on the metaverse, generative AI and the cognitive domain. Josh previously worked at National Defense University (NDU) College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC), U.S. Air Force Academy in the Military and Strategic Studies Department and the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies, and at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Collectively, he spent three years living in Beijing working as an editor and journalist on China security issues, as well as a television host, director, writer and producer. 
  

  Josh is a published author in the field of nuclear energy and has expertise in China space activities.  Current areas of interests in research include artificial intelligence, branding/marketing and China.   

  He holds a BA with a double major in International Relations and German from Centre College and an MA in International Security from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and has attained professional proficiency in Mandarin and German.
  

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  China Cognitive Warfare

  with

  Josh Baughman, US National Defense University

  Cognitive Warfare is seen as its own domain in modern warfare alongside the four military domains defined by their environment (land, maritime, air and space) and the cyber domain connects them all. Cognitive Warfare operates on a global stage as we are all digitally connected and uses information technology and the tools, machines, networks and systems to seek out it's target: intelligence. 

  China, as a strategic competitor to NATO, describes Cognitive Warfare as the use of public opinion, psychological operations, and legal influence to achieve victory. Combat psychology has significant impact on the warfighter's ability to function with a focus on recording facial information, emotional changes and psychological states of soldiers to determine their combat status.  Outside of the battlefield, influence can also affect law, rule-of-order and civil constructs.

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  Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024

  Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.

  
  

  Venue: Capital City Club (downtown)

                    7 John Portman Blvd NW

                    Atlanta, GA 30303
  

  Parking: Complimentary valet parking is available

  Cancellation Policy: If you need to cancel, please do so not later than 48 hours before the event. ACIR is charged for your meal, so no refund can be provided.

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