Description

Systemic Destabilisation Warfare (SDW) presents a ground-breaking redefinition of modern conflict, arguing that twenty-first-century warfare has migrated from physical battlefields into the cognitive, informational, institutional, and emotional infrastructures of society. Drawing on interdisciplinary research across geopolitics, psychology, security studies, and systems theory, the book demonstrates that the most decisive threats facing contemporary democracies no longer arise from traditional military confrontation, but from continuous, low-visibility pressures that undermine social cohesion, distort public reasoning, and erode institutional stability.

The author shows how technological interdependence, social-media dynamics, identity fragmentation, and the saturation of information have created an environment in which disruption is easier to generate than coherence. In this emergent battlespace, state and non-state actors alike exploit cognitive biases, emotional vulnerabilities, and system-level weaknesses to destabilise societies without crossing the thresholds associated with conventional warfare.