Cognitive warfare has reached the Eastern Mediterranean, and much of the answer to it is already European.
Celia D. Hanley
(Founder and President of Catalina Intelligent Solutions LLC (CatalinaIQ). A former Senior Operations Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, with over forty years in clandestine operations, counterintelligence, and international security, she now develops cognitive security and risk mitigation programs for private-sector, government, and academic audiences).
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Copyright: @ 2026 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 14 August 2026
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A migrant surge builds at a European land border, organized not by desperation alone but by a neighboring state that decided to open the gate. GPS signals fall across civilian airspace over the Eastern Mediterranean. An undersea cable is severed. A manufactured story about a national leader spread faster than any correction can chase it. In most ministries, and most newspapers, each of these is filed as a separate problem: migration, aviation safety, infrastructure protection, disinformation. ... Read more