Presenting a conceptual model for developing a policy to deal with the enemy's cognitive warfare in the cyber space

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. student of strategic management of cyberspace at National Defense University

2 Professor and faculty member of Shahid Sattari University of Aviation Sciences and Technology. Tehran. Iran

3 Professor and member of the academic staff of the National Defense University. Tehran. Iran.

4 Professor and member of the academic staff of the National Defense University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
With the emergence of the human mind as a new field of battle and the change in the nature of wars, the scope of activities has been transferred from the physical and information fields to the field of understanding and awareness, and the human brain has become a new battlefield. has been Derived from the above and with the aim of creating a transformation in the way of looking at the surrounding environment and setting the stage for carrying out specific actions, a planned and purposeful process under the title of "cognitive warfare" is taking place. Based on this, formulating any policy to deal with the enemy's cognitive warfare in the cyberspace requires the design of a realistic and applicable conceptual model.This research is based on the study of related researches, literature review, identification of conventional threats, and extraction of common concepts by posing the question, "What is the model of policy making to deal with the enemy's cognitive warfare in cyber space and what model can be drew from this study? By using the qualitative research method of the foundation type (GT), it tries to develop a conceptual model for developing a policy model for dealing with the enemy's cognitive warfare in the cyber space in accordance with local concerns and in order to prevent provide strategic surprise and avoid the parallelism of usual work. The most important methods of collecting information in this research are library studies and field research, and the resulting conceptual model has three ...

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