Philosophical warfare is the term used for a weapon centric method of warfare involving the deliberate use of ideas and methods of thought to out position, destroy or render invalid the opposing ideas of the enemy.  
  Sometimes confused with information warfare and psychological warfare, philosophical warfare is distinct in that it requires the actual construction of sufficiently robust philosophical arguments in opposition to the enemy, whereas information warfare is merely the transmission of information and psychological warfare is the creation of deceptive argument and propaganda.
  
  Philosophy has always been a central element driving the identity of state and movement of politics towards or away from conflict. More recently, it underpins the global emergence of cultural warfare and ideologically motivated networks of non-state militant organisations.
  
  What makes philosophical warfare now a genuinely unique and critically important category of warfare is the speed and breadth of transmission of an idea. Whereas philosophies traditionally took years, sometimes even decades to filter across society and neighbours nations, radical ideas and actions can now be transmitted simultaneously to hundreds of millions of people in seconds.
  
  While information and psychological warfare are assumed to play and integral part in any overall strategy to defeat an enemy, it is now inadequate and futile to simply respond to the radical and/or new ideas of an enemy through their censorship. In many cases, such action inevitably strengthens and broadens the base of supporters of such ideas. Instead, philosophical warfare is the deliberate construction of well considered alternative and superior ideas capable of “out arguing” the ideas of the enemy.
  
     
     
     
     
 

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