# Weaponized Ideology **Entity class:** Cognitive and information warfare concept **Weaponized ideology** is an ideological system deliberately packaged, propagated, or operationalized to alter identity, perception, legitimacy, motivation, and behavior in service of strategic objectives. It becomes physically consequential through people, institutions, networks, access, and effectors rather than by independently satisfying a material WMD definition. ## Relationships [[wiki/Cognitive Warfare|Cognitive Warfare]] · [[wiki/Ideological Payload|Ideological Payload]] · [[wiki/Mass-Effect Cognitive Weapon|Mass-Effect Cognitive Weapon]] ## Sources - [NATO Allied Command Transformation — Cognitive Warfare](https://www.act.nato.int/activities/cognitive-warfare/) **As of:** 2026-09-23