Gaslighting and Information Warfare
By Justin Sherman & Anastasios Arampatzis
May 07, 2018
Chaos, Confusion and a Severe disconnect from reality. These are just some of the side effects of gaslighting, a technique used in offensive information warfare.
Drawn from George Cukor’s award-winning film Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, the term gaslighting is here defined as a weapon of the will to power. It is known in the cybersecurity community as a technique used by social engineers to psychologically manipulate their targets. While the cybersecurity context implies gaining access to systems or sensitive information, gaslighting is quite useful in the context of information warfare. Nation-states and other actors can use gaslighting to sow chaos and dissent among their adversaries, such as with Russia’s current disinformation campaigns against many of the world’s democracies.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/05/07/gaslighting_and_information_warfare_113410.html
