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Cognitive Superiority: The Rise of Multi-Domain Operations in the Digital Age

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The transformation of warfare in the twenty-first century reflects a fundamental shift in the relationship between technology, information, and military power.

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Platform publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-06-13

The transformation of warfare in the twenty-first century reflects a fundamental shift in the relationship between technology, information, and military power. The industrial logic of attrition, based on material superiority and concentrated firepower, is giving way to a paradigm of cognitive and systemic dominance in which superiority depends on the ability to integrate and synchronise all operational domains—land, sea, air, space, cyber, and information—into a single, coherent network.

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Cognitive Superiority: The Rise of Multi-Domain Operations in the Digital Age

Type DFM Analysis report
Published 2026-06-13 (Platform publication)
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The transformation of warfare in the twenty-first century reflects a fundamental shift in the relationship between technology, information, and military power.

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