@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1083, TITLE={The civil legitimacy of cognitive warfare}, AUTHOR={Christian Harbulot, }, JOURNAL={Cognitive Engineering}, VOLUME={7}, NUMBER={Issue 1}, YEAR={2024}, URL={http://www.openscience.fr/The-civil-legitimacy-of-cognitive-warfare}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1083}, ISSN={2517-6978}, ABSTRACT={This article addresses the issue of the civil culture of cognitive warfare, which is very rarely taken into account. In addition to military confrontation, three other types of confrontation can be considered here. Ideological and cultural confrontation, referring to the cognitive means used to destabilise or challenge a dominant ideological system. Geo-economic confrontation, all the informational manoeuvres linked to economic warfare. Societal confrontation, the intrusion of civil society players into economic problems. The players involved in these issues come from the civilian world, not the military.}}