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originally posted by: hotspace
Greetings everyone. I've got one for you all to review and leave comments on. Personally - I'm a little taken aback at how "in your face" this video is. It's enlightening in some aspects as those that have been a part of the military complex understand that this happens in the shadows. But, is the public ready for this very public confession?
originally posted by: ByteChanger
It's a recruitment video for "U.S. Army Special Operations"!
In January 2021, NATO published the final draft of a lengthy study it called Cognitive Warfare. Its intent is to explore the potential for manipulating minds—those of others, our own—beyond anything heretofore even attempted. “The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st century,” the document asserts. “Humans are the contested domain. Cognitive warfare’s objective is to make everyone a weapon.”
In a subsection headed “The vulnerabilities of the human brain,” the report has this to say:
“In particular, the brain:
is unable to distinct [sic] whether information is right or wrong:
is led to believe statements or messages it has already heard as true, even though these may be false;
accepts statements as true, if backed by evidence, with no regards to [sic] the authenticity of that evidence.“
“At the political and strategic level, it would be wrong to underestimate the impact of emotions…. Emotions—hope, fear, humiliation—shape the world and international relations with the echo-chamber effect of social media.“