# Cognitive-Cyber Primacy Cognitive-Cyber primacy is the article’s proposed strategic objective: preserve friendly cognition, trust, lawful initiative, coordination, and decision quality while degrading the functional coherence of hostile combatants, command structures, proxy networks, and adversarial influence systems. ## Dual requirement Primacy requires two simultaneous achievements: 1. Friendly populations, forces, and institutions remain cognitively sovereign and resilient. 2. Hostile decision systems remain cognitively degradable within lawful armed-conflict, oversight, and ethical boundaries. ## Governing constraint The concept is inseparable from the [[Symmetry Principle]] and [[Consent-and-Reversibility Perimeter]]. A capability that would violate the cognitive sovereignty it claims to defend defeats the framework’s purpose. ## Relationships [[Cognitive-Cyber Warfare]] · [[Decision Dominance]] · [[Cognitive Sovereignty Infrastructure]] · [[Closed-Loop Cognitive Attrition]]. ## Source [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures#Executive Summary|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare — Executive Summary]].