Executive Summary This article analyzes the current war between Israel, and Iran and Hezbollah through the prism of cognitive warfare: the campaign over public consciousness, perception of reality, and trust in institutions, and focuses on how this arena is changing in the era after the
Col. (Ret.) Guy Itzhaki, former Chief of the Consciousness Department, IDF, and ICT Fellow sheds light on Cognitive Warfare in the “Swords of Iron” Era and how Israel must fight this battlefield:Alongside kinetic operations, adversaries led by Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah conducted a sophisticated cognitive
Introduction This paper argues that Hezbollah’s decision to join the renewed 2026 war with Israel is neither a simple act of “axis discipline” nor just an automatic extension of its traditional resistance role, but the product of a narrowing strategic corridor shaped by three forces:
