NATO COGWAR Newsletter: PERCEPTION | SEPTEMBER 2025 VOL 1, ISSUE 1

COGNITIVE WARFARE

FOCUS FOR SEPTEMBER 2025

Welcome to the first issue of Perception, ACTs monthly digest of all things Cognitive Warfare. We hope that this newsletter will serve as your resource for understanding cognitive warfare, current threats, and technological spaces to better equip the Alliance to defend against and gain advantage in cognitive warfare. Please let us know if your team would like a brief or where we can coordinate with you on projects to further enhance the cross-coordination throughout the NATO enterprise. This month focuses on outreach to the community of interest and how we can make all the interested individuals connect as a network to knowledgeably engage in cognitive warfare.

Our NATO document highlight of the month is the following: Not Withstanding? An Upbeat Perspective on Societies’ Will to Fight May 2025: Link to Article Here “Too often…we give way to prejudice and fear about those we depend on and overstate the enemy’s cohesion and resolve, while casting our own societies as fragmented or passive. This reflects how powerful public narratives can be – and how poorly we often use them.” (p.28) (full page summary of the article can be found on page 3)