This 2016 Second Edition of MindWar revises and expands the original 2013 book.
Army\'s three Special Operations bran.
It proposes laboratory implementation through the structural redesign of the U.
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This book extrapolation and evolution of the original 1980 concept is not merely theoretical.
Hence this genie must be examined and evaluated while its bottle is still sealed.
Devised to save humanity, it could also supersede it.
But, like the Manhattan Project which rashly opened an earlier genie\'s bottle, MindWar could be misused with even more ominous consequences.
MindWar assumes, as did the ancients, that the ultimate aspiration of mankind is to the Good.
The price for this solution is that, for the first time in practical history, the actual machinery of human thought is accessed, by the methodical application of science, psychology, and esoteric arts of antiquity.
These are then controlled, adjusted, and reformed to produce a harmonious and cooperative total environment.
The persons and property of people are removed as targets, replaced by the divisive situations and problems originating in their consciousness.
On the premise that war is endemic to the human disposition, MindWar proposes to eliminate its killing and destruction by replacing it with a far more powerful kind of war - one which focuses on the human mind both individually and collectively.
For millennia violent warfare has been the scourge of humanity, and all attempts to end it through negotiated or imposed peace have brought only temporary respite.
What it is capable of setting in motion is simply beyond all previous human interactive experience.
Ironically MindWar is unclassified only because a level high enough to embrace it has never been anticipated or even conceptualized.
Originally intended for the eyes of government policymakers alone, it is now openly available.
Colonel Michael Aquino.
Is the government involved in invasion of the mind beyond the blundering, haphazard legacy of the infamous MKULTRA experiments? Even more unsettling, do such efforts extend beyond conventional scientific research to dark and arcane arts whose very existence is the stuff of legend? The answers are here, in this book by one of that 1980 paper\'s co-authors, Lt.
Though only a brief, theoretical speculation, it exploded into the focus of alarmist rumors and debates for the next three decades.
Army concept paper, From PSYOP to MindWar, accidentally became public.
In 1980 an obscure internal U.
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This 2016 Second Edition of MindWar revises and expands the original 2013 book
