Cognitive & Information Domain

Cognitive Domain Assessment | Relegitimizing Jihad.

Al-Qaeda’s Strategic Communication, Cognitive Warfare, and Organizational Survival in 2026

Feb 18 • Daniele Garofalo

Cognitive Domain Assessment | Managing the Digital Battlespace

Removing Extremist Content and Preventing Radicalization

Feb 16 • Daniele Garofalo

Cognitive Warfare in Jihadist Propaganda: al-Qaeda’s Strategic Narrative on U.S. Counterterrorism

Legitimising Jihadism through Propaganda and Strategic Attrition

Jan 20 • Daniele Garofalo

Weaponized Narratives and Operational Signalling: AQAP’s Cognitive Warfare in Yemen

Narrative Warfare, Psychological Effects and Strategic Implications for Counter-Terrorism and Stability Operations

Jan 15 • Daniele Garofalo

From Narrative to Threat: How al-Qaeda Frames the United Arab Emirates in Contemporary Jihadist Discourse

Narrative Delegitimisation, Cognitive Warfare, and Security Implications

Jan 2 • Daniele Garofalo

From Gaza to Sydney: al-Qaeda’s Globalisation of Cognitive Jihad

Incitement, Lone-Actor Enablement, and Strategic Messaging in a Recent AQAP Media Release

Dec 31, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

“Jihadist Cognitive Warfare Dynamics in AQAP’s «America Evil State» Magazine”

An Intelligence-Oriented Assessment

Dec 28, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

Seasonal Incitement, Strategic Signaling

Cognitive Domain Assessment of al-Naba’ 527 Editorial

Dec 27, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

Islamic State Engineering Persistence

IS Cognitive Warfare through al-Naba’ 527

Dec 26, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

Ambiguous Attribution as a Tool of Cognitive Warfare.

Islamic State, al-Naba 526, and the Strategic Orchestration of Widespread Violence

Dec 22, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

Jihadist “Cancel Culture”.

Dynamics of censorship and cultural control by jihadist groups.

Dec 2, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

The aesthetics of violence: ISCAP infographics and three months of attacks in DR Congo.

Analysis of the ISCAP infographic in al-Naba 522

Nov 24, 2025 • Daniele Garofalo

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