Narrative intelligence is emerging as one of the intelligence community’s most important new disciplines — and few people understand it better than Joe Stradinger.
In this episode of Intel at the Edge, Joe Stradinger — founder of Edge Theory and creator of the National Center for Narrative Intelligence in Oxford, Mississippi — joins Chip to break down what narrative intelligence actually is, how it differs from traditional social media monitoring, and why he believes it’s become a central front in modern cognitive warfare.
They cover:
• Joe’s path from CPA to early internet entrepreneur to national security advisor
• What “narrative intelligence” means and how it’s detected, classified, and measured
• The concept of “intercontinental ballistic narratives” and how adversary messaging spreads over time
• How China, Russia, and other actors exploit real-world events to sow division
• Washington’s growing (but still unsettled) response to cognitive warfare
• Why storytelling — from Joe’s Mississippi Delta roots to America’s own national narrative — may be the most powerful (and underused) tool in this fight
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