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Cognitive Warfare Task Force Update

Understanding cognitive warfare is a national security requirement for the United States. Cognitive warfare is a form of warfare that focuses on influencing the opponent's reasoning, decisions, and ultimately, actions to secure strategic objectives without fighting or with less military effort than would otherwise be required. Read our primer to understand how cognitive warfare is Russia’s way of war, governance, and occupation. The goals, means, and effects of Russian cognitive warfare are far greater than disinformation at the tactical level.

Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update

The Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update tracks Russian recruitment efforts, force generation, force reconstitution, and technological adaptations. This product line is intended to replace the coverage of Russian force generation and technological adaptations in the daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessments.

Russian Occupation Update

The Occupation Updates examine Russian efforts to consolidate administrative control of annexed areas and forcibly integrate Ukrainian citizens into Russian sociocultural, economic, military, and governance systems. This product line replaces the section of the daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment covering activities in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.

Adversary Entente Task Force 

ISW has launched a task force that will examine the strategic interactions between the United States’ main adversaries: Russia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Iran, and North Korea. The new Adversary Entente Task Force will produce weekly products providing assessments on major developments between these adversaries in order to more holistically examine the evolution of the Entente, assess prospects of cooperation, and determine exploitable vulnerabilities within these adversary relationships. Adversary Entente Task Force publications will supplement the regional expertise in ISW’s existing Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Iran Update, and China-Taiwan Weekly Update. Read our latest update here.