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Rome, 20 September 2025 - In classical conflicts such as those we are witnessing Gaza and Ukraine, but also in those forgotten 'scattered around the world, alongside bombs, intelligent planes, drones, and tank has now acquired the right of full citizenship also the so -called cognitive war, where man acts in tandem with technology.It attacks and defends us with the stressed tools between the manipulation of the news, disinformation, IT sabotage.Hacker against hacker.Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has launched an idea that is now concretizing: for the first time the military will have the opportunity to take hackers and private specialists to set up a shield of cybersicacy and if necessary attack.No drones, only click.This is thus filled with a void that until now had left the competence at Palazzo Chigi with the direction of the Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano and the National Cyber ​​Security Agency. The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto announced the hacker initiative The new strategy enters the program of the Armed Forces through a bill presented by the President of the Defense Commission of the Chamber Nino Minardo.The proposal also introduces specific Cyber ​​Defgence training courses in institutes and military schools to prepare new generations of professionals.It is an epochal turning point.The plan grants the defense the right to operate even in peacetime, outside of traditional war scenarios, to protect institutions, critical infrastructures and citizens.The armed forces, which already have departments engaged on the psychological and communicative front (28th Pavia Regiment of Pesaro), will be able to conduct offensive and defensive digital operations. The theme of the cognitive war occupied part of the forum on terrorism and intelligence just ended in Tev Aviv organized by Reichman University, the 'Shabtai Shavit World Summit', which brought together experts to fight terrorism, Mossad managers and other intelligence agencies, as well as diplomats and experts."The cognitive war is the use, by foreign powers, of information, disinformation and psychology of the masses to manipulate the public opinion of other countries and condition their politics", explains Alberto Pagani, analyst, expert, professor of the history of terrorism, and trainer in several internships to the military, present at Tel Aviv. "The battlefield is the mind of people, the main vehicle is the internet. Operations passes through social networks and the use of data analysis, microarteting, production of content with artificial intelligence for targeted manipulation and other techniques. Russia and China are the cutting -edge countries on this front - continues Pagani - and within them they have a total control that allows you to block any private individual who can be suspected of spreading unwelcome information.The West.Hamas, on the other hand, is in turn used."It is maneuvered by foreign powers, like Iran and allies. Whoever directs this cognitive war knows that Hamas would not enjoy sympathies in the West, so he uses a more refined strategy, hiding the Hamas government behind the suffering of the Palestinian people, victim of a war that mainly affects civilians".