# Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Cognitive-Cyber Warfare is Bryant McGill’s name for machine-mediated warfare aimed at perception, orientation, trust, coordination, decision quality, morale, tempo, and behavioral endurance. Cyber systems provide the access substrate; cognition and collective decision performance are the target. ## Defining distinction The framework distinguishes information warfare, which contests dissemination, from cognitive warfare, which contests the reactions of minds to information. Its decisive terrain is the orient phase between perception and action. The offensive mechanism is [[Closed-Loop Cognitive Attrition]]. The defensive answer is [[Cognitive Sovereignty Infrastructure]]. ## Evidentiary boundary The article presents a synthesized operational ontology, combining confirmed doctrine and programs with explicitly graded adjacency, foreign doctrine, horizon signals, and hypotheses. The framework must not be used to convert technical capability or contextual similarity into attribution. ## Relationships [[Narrative Intelligence]] · [[Adaptive Governor]] · [[Cognitive Effect Assessment Framework]] · [[Attribution Fog]] · [[Cognitive Literacy]]. ## Source [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures#Executive Summary|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare — Executive Summary]].