When China deploys warships to the Taiwan Strait or when it funds a port in Hambantota or finances a railway through the Sahel, the world notices. But when Beijing rewires how populations think, what they fear, and who they trust, the world largely looks away. This is Cognitive Warfare, the world's most consequential battlefield of the 21st century, the one that's least understood. Illustration by The Geostrata China calls it ‘public opinion warfare,’ which is one of the thre

Once upon a time, the sounds of our everyday lives included the hum of the espresso machine, the soft rustle of pages being turned, and the far-off cries from a playground. They were the gentle invitations to step out of our private worlds and into a shared one, a space where fleeting smiles with strangers or impromptu conversations with familiar faces fostered a sense of belonging. Illustration by The Geostrata However, a sea of glowing screens and noise-cancelling headphone

The analysis of psychological profiling of world leaders, or for that matter, any individual, cannot be fulfilled without mentioning ‘The Father of Psychology’, Sigmund Freud. In 1932, in a letter from Albert Einstein to Sigmund Freud, under the title “Why War?” Einstein asked several crucial questions pertaining to the present world stratum. Illustration by The Geostrata One of them is “ Is it possible to control man's mental evolution to make him proof against the psychos

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