The Cognitive Crucible

Dr. Joanna Siekiera discusses China's global integration from a legal perspective, highlighting the country's strategic tactics, including vessel deployment and international law misuse. The podcast also explores Europe's varied perceptions of China, contrasting economic partnerships with security concerns. Reflective closure encourages students to research actions' underlying reasons for a deeper understanding.

Dr. Randy Rosin explores reflexive control in Soviet influence strategies, emphasizing indirect approaches and conveying decision-making processes. Topics include propaganda universe, Russian cyber ops, Vygotsky's influence, and reflexive control's past, present, and future. Strategic planning, manipulation tactics in Georgia and Ukraine, and understanding adversaries' inner worlds are discussed.

Rod Korba discusses Vygotsky's inner speech theory, focusing on how internal words differ from external speech in forming personal meanings. Inner speech serves as a tool for conceptual thinking and mediating public and private thoughts, shaping identity and cognitive functions.

Exploring China's media tactics, fragile partnerships, and online manipulation tactics in comparison to other nations. Navigating internet restrictions in China and AI vs human creativity in censorship challenges. Insights on measuring online influence and cognitive warfare tactics.

This podcast delves into Curtis Fox's insights on Hybrid Warfare, focusing on the Russian approach. The discussion covers Russia's historical expansion strategies, the West's identity crisis, and the use of narratives in hybrid warfare tactics. It also explores China and Iran's strategies, geographical influences on civilization growth, and critiques on civilizational development explanations.

Former US Air Force officer Julie Janson discusses the founding of the Air Force's Information Operations career field, the need for continuous learning in the information environment, the importance of cultural expertise in the military, signature management, collaboration in information operations, and unconventional book recommendations for military personnel.

Ben Kessler from Meltwater discusses their Owned, Earned, Organic (OEO) measurement models. He explores the transformation of data into valuable insights, challenges of deriving meaningful insights from vast amounts of data, and risks of mis and disinformation. They also discuss the origin of Meltwater, diverse data sources for information, the importance of evaluating ROI, and the importance of agility in government.

US Marine Corps Major Melissa Giannetto discusses her Master’s thesis on media literacy efforts in Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Topics covered include the importance of media literacy, implementation methods, media literacy training in Sweden, competition for attention, and the book 'Foolproof' on misinformation.

Tanna Krewson, a researcher in cognitive warfare and global conflict analysis, discusses the impact of cognitive warfare on society, the subconscious mind's role in decision-making, monetizing attention on YouTube, atmospheric influence in fast food restaurants, and book recommendations on cognitive warfare and misinformation.

Joseph Lee, a Jungian Analyst, discusses Carl Jung, collective consciousness, and archetypes. The podcast covers a comparison between Jung and Freud, Joseph Campbell's work on the hero's journey, the Marvel universe as a modern collection of stories, the power of rituals, and the emergence of archetypes. It also explores the application of archetypes in national security and marketing, archetypes in teams, contextual parameters, creating a new myth, and the impact of vivid imagery.