By Mark Anderson
An independent French institute has produced a war game script that sees the human mind as the next most important domain to conquer and occupy.
Put together by Herve le Guyader, a researcher for Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique (National Higher School of Cognitive Science), in Bordeaux, France, this “report,” while it was initially issued in February 2020, describes what it calls largely fictitious scenarios and policy goals in a 2018-2040 time frame. Its disturbing theme: “The Weaponization of Neurosciences.”
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The report’s hypothetical developments center on NATO, the military alliance formed in 1949, ostensibly for protecting “free Europe” from the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact alliance.
In real life, NATO, hell-bent on keeping itself relevant amid the announced end of the Cold War, quickly expanded beyond its initial stated purpose. It has even made overtures with South American nations to extend the alliance’s reach.
Guyader’s paper posits that in-depth research on weaponizing neuroscience—transcending the traditional warfare realms of land, sea, air, cyberspace, and space—will culminate in a for-now hypothetical NATO summit July 17, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium. The report suggests the summit will be entitled: “The Human Mind: The 6th Domain of Operation.”
The executive summary in the 33-page report notes:
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 [with] some true game-changers.
The report refers to utilizing a few provocative “dramatization tricks” to keep things interesting, but, fictional aspects aside, the report seeks to answer real geo-strategic questions. It goes on to clarify that, in reality:
- “Yes, [the] ‘Human mind’ should be NATO’s next domain of operation;”
- “Yes, AWACS’ [early-warning systems’] successor must address NBIC”; and
- “Yes, global security is what’s at stake today, and it will take more than professionals of the defense, security and military sectors to address it efficiently.”
Page five of the report refers to policy matters set in the year 2019, curiously entitled, “Responding to Cognitive Security Challenges —the ‘Hacking Humans’ Report.” This scenario involves an apparently fictional “NATO STRATCOM COE 6” paper highlighting a “massive threat NATO nations, in particular, were exposed to.”
It concluded that this massive threat involves the following:
Social media give users the power to spread and receive contaminated information. Threats to cognitive security should not be overlooked.
Technological innovations are used to exacerbate deep-seated weaknesses that can destabilize our societies. … [In the interest of the] safety of our nations and our alliance.
As American Free Press has long understood, these globalist groups embrace strident internationalist governance that supports radically liberal social agendas, wherein national autonomy is branded illiberal and uncritically equated with authoritarianism.
Thus, nationalism is strangely and automatically declared to be a species of virtual Hitlerism, and alternative news narratives accordingly are seen chiefly as products of the dreaded hard right.
It is made clear in the report that global planners see independent news like this newspaper as an existential threat to their liberal democratic order that protects entrenched banking, pharmaceutical and news-information interests, proving the adage that all warfare is informational before it ever gets physical.
The report summarizes:
Security is not merely a military issue. Global security is a society issue, but the public at-large is simply not aware of it.
NATO, nations and their partners must realize that the constant undermining (the “1,000 cuts” reality) they are suffering from, together with the unique opportunities NBIC offer to their competitors for hybrid, ambiguous warfare, create existential threats that cannot be addressed just by professional defense and security personnel.
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