FUTURE VOICE Magazine XII | Cognitive Warfare
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Battle for your Brain
Cognitive warfare is a form of warfare where the brain, the human consciousness, is the battlefield. This warfare strives for absolute control over the thought processes and emotions of each individual.
To control your perception of the world (of reality) and your actions down to the last detail is the objective of this warfare.
Anyone who has studied the subject of mind control knows that the instruments that allow such absolute control and steering have been tested and refined since the 1950s in a variety of secret, mostly inhumane projects.
Since 2015, the global market for ‘non-lethal weapons’ used for this purpose has exploded. With fanatical zeal, states around the world are competing for dominance and the most effective weapons systems in the field of ‘silent’ destruction of the human mind/consciousness.
A hybrid form of warfare is being elevated worldwide, with trillion-dollar budgets, to the military strategy of the future. It focuses on cognitive warfare in unity with economic, cyber, information and psychological warfare.
In a NATO-funded Innovation Hub, the possibilities of cognitive warfare are discussed publicly on a broad scale, and the alliance with the private sector in cooperation is promoted.
Cognitive warfare is described as the “weaponisation of brain science” that involves “hacking the individual” by exploiting “the vulnerabilities of the human brain” in order to implement more sophisticated “social engineering.”
“Cognitive warfare seeks to change not only what people think, but also how they act,” the Canadian government wrote in its official statement on the NATO's Fall 2021 Innovation challenge.
The NATO justifies the need to turn humanity into remote-controlled robots through the non-regulated use of neuroscience and non-lethal weapons with the current threat posed by the use of such warfare by Russia and China.
Another 'good cop, bad cop' orchestration for the people of the world. We know only too well, at least since the ‘Covid crisis’, that behind this smoke screen – there is one force, a unified will. Starting with a military-industrial complex that controls the conflicts and maximises its profits, irrespective of which side superficially wins; directed by a small group that is willing to use any means to expand its power and subjugate humanity to its will. …
The NATO Warfighting 2040 Report (2020) speaks a clearer language against this background. If you read between the lines, you will find the agenda/marching orders here, for the next 20 years.
“The liberal democracy long seen as triumphant over the great ideological quarrels of the twentieth century is today seen as being in peril for not having been able to satisfy the people. The dominant liberal narrative since the end of WWII is losing ground and many countries and leaders reject the liberal system as a danger.”
“Democracy in particular is no longer seen as the ultimate form of government while at the same time order and authoritarianism is deemed to better cope with the dangers of a deregulated world.”
A world that is being deliberately deregulated, especially since 2020, serves as a basis in this report; and as justification for the use of cognitive warfare. The establishment of a global autocratic system as a result of re-regulation seems to be a done deal.
And cognitive warfare is the ultimate weapon with which this transformation is to be carried out. Human free will, independent thought, feeling and action are to be eradicated for the sake of an ‘ordered’ world in which a small elite feels safer.
Free will is a divine gift that belongs to every human being. Cognitive warfare means waging a war against being human itself, outside of any constitutional limitation. Its weapons are invisible. It has no beginning and no end. It is directed arbitrarily against everyone. It is the instrument for the deification of the power position of a few in secret.
The NATO Warfighting 2040 Report comments as follows on the use of neuroscience for military purposes (Weaponisation of neurosciences):
“Broad and rapid advancements in neuroscience and its technologies have prompted renewed and growing interest in the use of these tools and methods to exert influence and power on the global stage. While it has been said that everything could be weaponized, neurosciences and, more broadly speaking, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Sciences (NBIC) are clearly providing state and non-state actors some true game changers.”
A Royal Society study ‘Brain Waves Module 3: Neuroscience, conflict, and security, 2012’ provides an overview of existing opportunities for neuroscience to manipulate humans.
According to this study, military neuroscience has “two main goals: performance enhancement, i.e. improving the efficiency of one’s own forces, and performance degradation, i.e. diminishing the performance of one’s enemy.”
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has proclaimed for two decades that “the human is becoming the weakest link in defense systems” and that “sustaining and augmenting human performance will have significant impact on Defense missions and systems.”
The most potentially consequential developments will be found in the area of neural interfacing and its efforts to bring the human nervous system and computing machines under a single informational architecture.
“Electrode arrays implanted in the nervous system could provide a connection between the nervous system of an able-bodied individual and a specific hardware or software system. Since the human brain can process images, such as targets, much faster than the subject is consciously aware, a neurally interfaced weapons system could provide significant advantages over other system control methods in terms of speed and accuracy.”
In other words, to strengthen NATO's ‘Human Capital’, the tools of neuroscience are to be used to create the transhuman super-soldier, who receives his commands to act directly programmed into the subconscious via software. In this way, human factors such as conscience are to be eliminated.
The enemy is to be destroyed by erasing/reprogramming the consciousness of its own population and armed forces. In 2012, DARPA launched a $4 million research project called ‘Battlefield Illusion’ to research technologies that can “manage the adversary’s sensory perception” through an understanding of “how humans use their brains to process sensory inputs.”
The holy grail of military neuroscience is nothing less than the ability to hack directly into a target's perceptions and beliefs and reprogram them.
In this magazine we spotlight the ‘warfare of the future’ based on documents published in NATO's Innovation Hub. The article of Ben Norton (page 24) outlines in particular the study ‘Cognitive Warfare’ by Francois du Cluzel, head of the NATO Innovation Hub.
Du Cluzel defined cognitive warfare as the “art of using technologies to alter the cognition of human targets.”
Du Cluzel went on to explain that the exotic new method of attack “goes well beyond” information warfare or psychological operations (psyops).
“Cognitive warfare is not only a fight against what we think, but it’s rather a fight against the way we think, if we can change the way people think,” he said.
“It’s much more powerful and it goes way beyond the information [warfare] and psyops.
De Cluzel continued:
“It’s crucial to understand that it’s a game on our cognition, on the way our brain processes information and turns it into knowledge, rather than solely a game on information or on psychological aspects of our brains. It’s not only an action against what we think, but also an action against the way we think, the way we process information and turn it into knowledge.
In other words, cognitive warfare is not just another word, another name for information warfare. It is a war on our individual processor, our brain.”
Targets of cognitive warfare are called Targeted Individuals. In his presentation ‘Targeted Individuals: Covert Repression in the 21st Century’ (page 54), Dr Daniel Lebowitz gives a concrete insight into how cognitive warfare, non-lethal weapons and Zersetzen tactics work, with what objective they are used and what they do to humans.
“To understand the Targeted Individual phenomenon, you need to understand several things about it. You need to understand the societal and political and human rights trends which allow it to occur. You need to understand what the program is. You need to understand what the goals and the purpose of the program are.
You need to understand who gets targeted. You need to understand where the program came from, in other words, compare it to counterintelligence programs and unethical human experimentation of the past. And you need to understand the implications of the program, and what it means for the future. Finally, we’ll take a look about what must be done about it. …”
Cognitive hybrid warfare techniques have been tested and developed in covert operations on many people (including children) from very different backgrounds over the last 70 years.
Since 2012, we have seen these techniques being applied at an increasingly rapid pace to broader populations. In 2020, with the Covid crisis, the dam has been broken and the aim is now for the publicly legitimised use of these techniques on humanity worldwide.
Global companies, the private sector, are brought on board for this, with the promise that the protection of their rights to their intellectual property, their technical and neuroscientific inventions, is guaranteed.
So anyone who has the money and the technology is now allowed to experiment on humans without restraint and with impunity.
We close this magazine with the testimonies of the Targeted Individuals (TI's) Max Williams and Jeffery Bahry: ‘TI’s are owned and rented (human trafficked) to multiple entities for multiple purposes.’
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