In 2023, the commander Cornelis van der Klaauw from the Royal Netherlands Navy and Expert from Strategic Communications and Information Operations NATO Joint Warfare Centre wrote in the article “Cognitive Warfare”:
“The reason why cognitive attacks go unnoticed by their targets is that cognitive activities bypass the conscious mind and directly target the subconscious of a person… most of our decisions are made by our subconscious… cognitive attacks are not science fiction anymore. They are already taking place now… neural nanotechnology can be used to bring nano-sized robots close to a neuron via the bloodstream and make it possible to link the human brain directly (i.e. not intercepted by our senses) to a computer, making use of artificial intelligence in the process… While other domains can provide tactical and operational victories, the human domain is the only domain in which we can secure a full victory“ (see this).
In December 2021, the U.S. Naval postgraduate school in Monterey, California awarded to two of its students a Master of Science degree in Defence Analysis for the thesis “Neurowar Is Here!“. In the study they stated:
“great power competition has returned to the forefront of international relations, as China and Russia seek to contest America’s global leadership… this contest is ultimately a battle… to manipulate and control both adversaries and domestic populations alike. The battle for influence begins and ends in the human mind, where reality is perceived“ (pg.V) .
They identified neuroweapons as the weapons of this battle,
“that specifically target the brain or the central nervous system in order to affect the targeted person’s mental state, mental capacity and ultimately the person’s behavior in a specific and predictable way” (pg.3).
None of those informations appeared in the world mass media. Does that not mean that we are living in a world, where mass media are (at the request of governments) hiding from people the ongoing battle for the control of their minds and thoughts?
In the year 2000, the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) published a study on “Crowd Control Technologies“, where it admitted that
“In October 1999 NATO announced a new policy on non-lethal weapons and their place in allied arsenals”
and explained that
“The most controversial non-lethal crowd control and anti-materiel technology proposed by the US are so-called Radio Frequency or Directed Energy Weapons that can allegedly manipulate human behavior in a variety of unusual ways“
and
“the greatest concern is with systems which can directly interact with the human nervous system… The research undertaken to date both in the US and in Russia can be divided into two related areas: (i) individual mind control and (ii) crowd control” (pg.XIV, LIIII).
