“When Fact-Checking Becomes a Straw Man: The Case of Bangladeshi Hindus”, My Ind Maker, February 23, 2026
“Rise of Straw Man Fact-Checking: A Case for Narrative War
Making another case for Narrative Warfare, the state’s sheer incompetence in theorising and visualising the threat of new-age war on Narratives, Information, and Psy-ops as a real threat within its defence policy, conscious and public discourse. This is accompanied by an outdated, inefficient Babu-cracy (bureaucracy) within the Ministry of Defence and beyond, sidelining netizens’ appeals to take notice of the matter.
When we talk of Narrative Warfare, which is in a non-conventional setting that is outside the warfighting domain, this term is traditionally associated with military war doctrine and is derived from it. There exists a copious amount of literature on the subject, a well-institutionalised body, from World War I to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and civil wars in Libya and Syria. However, very little literature addresses the civilian space off the battlefield, as it is still in a nascent and emerging stage.
Narrative Warfare, in this sense, concerns “communication”, the dissemination and distribution of information capable of producing both positive and negative outcomes. It is a multidimensional phenomenon; it employs an entire web of information-sharing and transmission apparatus — communication technologies, media organisations, academia, and social media ecosystems……”
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