The president launches Mental DoS (Denial of Service) attacks regularly, using the neural networks (hardware) and cognitive processes (software) of hosts (people) to run sets of self-reinforcing code. The population of infected hosts is divided into three groups which each run resonant sets of code: Pro, Con, and Other.
Individual hosts in target groups run code produced by the campaign. Hosts accept and execute this code to realize cognitive rewards in the form of feelings such as justification, revenge, social cohesion, self satisfaction, and other local goals.
In the context of the overarching attack campaign the three sets of cognitive code achieve connected ends. Large amounts of available resources (time, information sharing, information processing) are consumed in a predictable model by all infected hosts in the Pro and Con target groups, while the Other target group becomes less connected to all hosts and less efficient and available for performing nominal functions.
Like any large infected network, operation of the campaign once the populations of infected hosts are established is a matter of modifying code bases and delivering command and control signalling to adjust desired behavior of infected hosts.
The perception that the campaign is in support of one of the target populations running one of the major code bases at the expense of another other major set of hosts is a foundational mechanism of the structure and operation of the campaign. Process prioritization structures of both sets of hosts are used to provide the cognitive malware more resources and a greater capability to produce desired actions including propagation of code updates to other infected hosts.
Alignment with the primary goals of the campaign is not a requirement for individual artifacts used in the structure or operation of the deployed operational network. Efficacy of achieving operational goals such as maintaining intended levels of total aggregate cognitive activity consumed, total cognitive activity consumed as a share of all aggregate cognitive activity, and advancing strategic narrative threads are primary determinants of individual artifact content. There is no specific evidence that the primary mission goals of the campaign align with the goals of the individual hosts among the Pro target group.
The campaign is now operating at a high level of maturity.