# James Giordano **Entity class:** Person / neuroethicist **Documented role:** Co-author of [[wiki/Cyborg Soldier 2050|Cyborg Soldier 2050]] (2019) **Documented contribution:** Commissioned essay cited in [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|Cognitive Warfare]] (2020) ## Definition James Giordano is a neuroethicist whose work appears in both the 2019 *Cyborg Soldier 2050* report and the 2020 NATO Innovation Hub *Cognitive Warfare* study. The former names him as a report co-author; the latter cites his “Emerging Neuroscience and Technology (NeuroS/T): Current and Near-Term Risks and Threats to NATO Biosecurity” essay and quotes a “brain battlefield” formulation attributed to him. That quote is misprinted in the Innovation Hub PDF with a missing word, so its clean form should be sourced to Giordano's own lecture, not silently repaired as a verbatim line from the PDF. ## Relationships - **Co-authorship:** [[wiki/Cyborg Soldier 2050|Cyborg Soldier 2050]], with Peter Emanuel, Scott Walper, Diane DiEuliis, Natalie Klein, and James B. Petro; the title page lists Georgetown University as Giordano's affiliation. - **Commissioned essay and quotation:** [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|Cognitive Warfare]] lists Giordano's October 2020 essay and attributes the brain-battlefield phrase to him. The study was sponsored by Allied Command Transformation, but expressly disclaims official ACT or member-nation statements. - **Technical context:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] supply the later evidence context without implying that the two reports belong to one program. ## Sources - [*Cyborg Soldier 2050*, title page and disclaimer](https://wespenrevideos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/US-Army-SuperSoldiers2050.pdf). - [Innovation Hub *Cognitive Warfare* study, pp. 16 and 37](https://innovationhub-act.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/20210122_CW-Final.pdf).