Well, I was shooting for the macro perspective about public influence operations but soon realized I was still in micro perspective. Until now.

I've always thought it's smarter to conquer a nation by conquering its collective mind than wasting money on military equipment to kill people and break things.

Well, countries hostile to us are making progress on both the mind and materiel fronts.

I'm going to focus on conquering minds because it uses human nature (which fascinates me) as its raw material.

To begin, I sought info on the highest threat to our western civilization: China and if/how it will conquer our minds.

It's not IF anymore but HOW. China is planning war and they're playing for keeps. China is extending beyond men/missiles/submarines into information/disinformation, psychological influence, sabotaging the things which keep people closely united politically. They're as serious as a heart attack about using AI in data-driven influence operations.

Remember all those data breaches China achieved for decades? How China collects personal info from everyone who uses a cell phone? How websites like Tiktok sends your useage data straight to China? Why would they be interested in all your data? After all, what's the big deal? Don't all websites collect your data?

https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-fined-china-europe-user-data-2067163

It's what is done with your data, how it will be used that's important to you.

Some mind-opening info follows:

◇Major R. Jake Alleman

IFC Fellow, Class of 2025

Cyberspace Operations Officer, USSF

Precision at Scale: The Industrialization of Influence Operations

Synopsis:

Future war will be cognitive and societal, not just kinetic.

Warns that China’s access to massive personal data combined with AI-enabled targeting allow influence operations at unprecedented scale.

It's a race between how well we're educated and China’s ability to industrialize psychological operations.

Destruction of trust, identity, and political cohesion rather than persuasion alone.

(Imagine China's AI influence op personally tuned to work on you!)

Institute of Future Conflict 2026 Threat Horizon Report (IFC)

◇Three Warfares Doctrine

Wikipedia

Synopsis:

A foundational concept in China’s strategic thinking that explicitly includes media/public opinion warfare and psychological warfare as part of its toolkit.

Identifies public opinion warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare as core tools.

Treats information shaping as a pre-war and continuos activity, not a wartime add-on.

Provides Communist doctrinal justification for targeting societal narratives and legitimacy.

◇Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04246 �

Synopsis:

How AI language models will change influence operations in the future.

◇U.S. Intelligence Assessment / Geopolitical Analysis – IRinFive

How China is integrating cyber, AI, and influence operations for war.

https://irinfive.com/2025/03/30/us-intelligence-assessment-of-chinas/

◇ODNI ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT

OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

March 2025

"China is using complex, whole-of-government campaigns featuring coercive military, economic, and influence

operations short of war to assert its positions and strength against others, reserving more destructive tools for full-

scale conflict. Beijing will likely expand these campaigns to advance unification with Taiwan, project power in East Asia, and reverse perceived U.S. hegemony."

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf

◇Microsoft Security

Digital threats from East Asia increase in breadth and effectiveness

"China has become more effective at engaging social media users with IO in the past year. Chinese online influence campaigns have long relied on sheer volume to reach users through networks of inauthentic social media accounts. Since 2022, however, China-aligned social media networks have engaged directly with authentic users on social media, targeted specific candidates in content about US elections, and posed as American voters. Separately, China’s state-affiliated multilingual social media influencer initiative has successfully engaged target audiences in at least 40 languages and grown its audience to over 103 million."

"On social media, campaigns deploy thousands of inauthentic accounts across dozens of websites, spreading memes, videos, and messages in multiple languages."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/threat-landscape/digital-threats-from-east-asia-increase-in-breadth-and-effectiveness/

And there is so much more on China, Russia, North Korea et al.

How about we all take a deep breath and contemplate if, in what we hold as truth, we're actually victims of some influence campaign whatever the source; we're really duped stooges; useful idiots for hidden powers that could care less about us... the end justifies the means. The truth is in this situation we're expendable and any method to achieve their goal is acceptable.

Rally to the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

18 minutes ago, mymonkeyhusb said:

Well, I was shooting for the macro perspective about public influence operations but soon realized I was still in micro perspective. Until now.

I've always thought it's smarter to conquer a nation by conquering its collective mind than wasting money on military equipment to kill people and break things.

Well, countries hostile to us are making progress on both the mind and materiel fronts.

I'm going to focus on conquering minds because it uses human nature (which fascinates me) as its raw material.

To begin, I sought info on the highest threat to our western civilization: China and if/how it will conquer our minds.

It's not IF anymore but HOW. China is planning war and they're playing for keeps. China is extending beyond men/missiles/submarines into information/disinformation, psychological influence, sabotaging the things which keep people closely united politically. They're as serious as a heart attack about using AI in data-driven influence operations.

Remember all those data breaches China achieved for decades? How China collects personal info from everyone who uses a cell phone? How websites like Tiktok sends your useage data straight to China? Why would they be interested in all your data? After all, what's the big deal? Don't all websites collect your data?

https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-fined-china-europe-user-data-2067163

It's what is done with your data, how it will be used that's important to you.

Some mind-opening info follows:

◇Major R. Jake Alleman

IFC Fellow, Class of 2025

Cyberspace Operations Officer, USSF

Precision at Scale: The Industrialization of Influence Operations

Synopsis:

Future war will be cognitive and societal, not just kinetic.

Warns that China’s access to massive personal data combined with AI-enabled targeting allow influence operations at unprecedented scale.

It's a race between how well we're educated and China’s ability to industrialize psychological operations.

Destruction of trust, identity, and political cohesion rather than persuasion alone.

(Imagine China's AI influence op personally tuned to work on you!)

Institute of Future Conflict 2026 Threat Horizon Report (IFC)

◇Three Warfares Doctrine

Wikipedia

Synopsis:

A foundational concept in China’s strategic thinking that explicitly includes media/public opinion warfare and psychological warfare as part of its toolkit.

Identifies public opinion warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare as core tools.

Treats information shaping as a pre-war and continuos activity, not a wartime add-on.

Provides Communist doctrinal justification for targeting societal narratives and legitimacy.

◇Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04246 �

Synopsis:

How AI language models will change influence operations in the future.

◇U.S. Intelligence Assessment / Geopolitical Analysis – IRinFive

How China is integrating cyber, AI, and influence operations for war.

https://irinfive.com/2025/03/30/us-intelligence-assessment-of-chinas/

◇ODNI ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT

OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

March 2025

"China is using complex, whole-of-government campaigns featuring coercive military, economic, and influence

operations short of war to assert its positions and strength against others, reserving more destructive tools for full-

scale conflict. Beijing will likely expand these campaigns to advance unification with Taiwan, project power in East Asia, and reverse perceived U.S. hegemony."

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf

◇Microsoft Security

Digital threats from East Asia increase in breadth and effectiveness

"China has become more effective at engaging social media users with IO in the past year. Chinese online influence campaigns have long relied on sheer volume to reach users through networks of inauthentic social media accounts. Since 2022, however, China-aligned social media networks have engaged directly with authentic users on social media, targeted specific candidates in content about US elections, and posed as American voters. Separately, China’s state-affiliated multilingual social media influencer initiative has successfully engaged target audiences in at least 40 languages and grown its audience to over 103 million."

"On social media, campaigns deploy thousands of inauthentic accounts across dozens of websites, spreading memes, videos, and messages in multiple languages."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/threat-landscape/digital-threats-from-east-asia-increase-in-breadth-and-effectiveness/

And there is so much more on China, Russia, North Korea et al.

How about we all take a deep breath and contemplate if, in what we hold as truth, we're actually victims of some influence campaign whatever the source; we're really duped stooges; useful idiots for hidden powers that could care less about us... the end justifies the means. The truth is in this situation we're expendable and any method to achieve their goal is acceptable.

Rally to the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

"Rally to the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution"

The Communist/Anarchist /Socialist /Marxist & international leftist would prefer to delegitimize

the rally because it stands in the way of joining forces with the CCP & their disinformation war fare against the USA free market system.