The NATO StratCom Center of Excellence in Riga, established in 2014, and the work of Allied Command Transformation on cognitive warfare represent the most recent developments. The EISI document repeatedly mentions think tanks, NGOs, and research institutes as components of the Western information apparatus. This coordinated cognitive warfare, directed by a strategic center, has set a precedent and inspired many other similar centers. In the MindIf cognitive warfare targets the thought process rather than its content, its analysis requires the use of the cognitive sciences. Cognitive warfare has not replaced kinetic warfare; rather, it has altered their relationship and sequence.