NARRATIVE WARFARE
NARRATIVE WARFARE Psychological, Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions of the Struggle for Meaning Abstract Narrative Warfare is the strategic contest over meaning, identity, and interpretation that underlies modern conflict. While traditional warfare seeks control of territory and resources, Narrative Warfare seeks control of perception, legitimacy, and belief. In an era of mass media, social networks, globalized information flows, and cognitive saturation, power increasingly depends not on who possesses superior force, but on who defines reality itself. This paper explores Narrative Warfare as a multidimensional phenomenon: psychologically, as a contest over identity and cognition; socially, as a struggle for cohesion and fragmentation; politically, as a means of legitimacy and governance; culturally, as a long-term mechanism shaping values and memory. It further examines how Special Operations forces, intelligence agencies, media institutions, corporations, and pri...