Mind Wars: The New Battlefield of Information Warfare, by Maj Gen P. K. Mallick, VSM (Retd), Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2026, pp. 290, Rs 1,250.00

Mind Wars: The New Battlefield of Information Warfare is an ambitious, wideranging and intellectually serious work that seeks to draw attention to what Maj Gen P. K. Mallick identifies as the most consequential arena of contemporary conflict: the human mind. The book’s underlying assertion that future wars will increasingly be decided by who shapes perception, narrative and cognition rather than who merely dominates terrain runs consistently through its 18 carefully structured chapters. In doing so, the author offers one of the most comprehensive Indian treatments of information and cognitive warfare to date, and that fact alone makes this book a pioneering contribution to national strategic thought.