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which had been used, and that 'we have no answer to the moral issue’."* They did have the answers to the moral questions on human experimentation but chose to ignore them, destroy the records, hide the truth and still continue in their efforts. Nothing has changed as each participating organisation, using national security laws, avoids disclosure and accountability. The records which were destroyed contained the evidence necessary perhaps to send some participants to jail for society's version of behaviour modification. Once again, there was no accountability and no recognition of the rights of the individuals damaged by these experiments. which had been used, and that 'we have no answer to the moral ogy, especially weapons accuracy, have constrained us to waging issue’."* serial war. This changes almost everything. They did have the answers to the moral questions on human "Biological Process Control: As we look forward to the future, it experimentation but chose to ignore them, destroy the records, hide seems likely that this nation will be involved in multiple conflicts the truth and still continue in their efforts. Nothing has changed as _ where our military forces increasingly will be placed in situations each participating organisation, using national security laws, avoids —_ where the application of full force capabilities of our military might disclosure and accountability. The records which were destroyed cannot be applied. We will be involved intimately with hostile contained the evidence necessary perhaps to send some participants populations in situations where the application of non-lethal force to jail for society's version of behaviour modification. Once again, _ will be the tactical or political preference. It appears likely that there was no accountability and no recognition of the rights of the there are a number of physical agents that might actively, but individuals damaged by these experiments. largely benignly, interact or interfere with biological processes in an adversary in a manner that will provide our armed forces the tools Mind Wars to control these adversaries without extensive loss of life or "For the first time in some 500 years, a scientific revolution has property. These physical agents could include acoustic fields, begun that will fundamentally change the world as much as the optical fields, electromagnetic fields, and combinations thereof. Renaissance and Enlightenment did. A handful of extraordinary This paper will address only the prospect of physical regulation of new advances in science are taking humans quickly and deeply into _ biological processes using electromagnetic fields. areas that will have profound implications for the future."* "Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of One of these areas is control of the human mind. The issues sur- knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a rounding behaviour modification, mind control and information clear understanding of how the human brain works, how it really warfare become crystal clear as the facts unfold. controls the various functions of the body, and how it can be The following is taken from a current military document, "The manipulated (both positively and negatively). One can envision the Information Revolution and the Future Air Force" by Colonel John development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of A. Warden III, USAF, which clarifies which can be pulsed, shaped, and their position in the emerging area of focused, that can couple with the research, taking a much different direc- human body in a fashion that will tion than the one described above: "In the past, communications allow one to prevent voluntary "We're currently experiencing, on an muscular movements, contro unprecedented global basis, three and weapons technology, emotions (and thus actions), produce simultaneous revolutions, any one of especially weapons accuracy, sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere which would be more than enough to with both short-term and long-term shock and confound us. The first revo- have constrained us to waging memory, produce an experience set, lution, a geopolitical revolution, sees a serial war. This changes and delete an experience set. This wil single dominant power in the world for open the door for the development of the first time since the fall of Rome. almost everything." some novel capabilities that can be The opportunities that are inherent in used in armed conflict, in this situation are extraordinary, as are terrorist/hostage situations, and in the pitfalls. Unfortunately, there is no training. New weapons that offer the one around that has first hand experience in how to deal with that opportunity of control of an adversary without resorting to a lethal kind of single power dominant world. situation or to collateral casualties can be developed around this "The second revolution, and there's a lot of discussion about this | concept. This would offer significant improvements in the so far, is the information revolution. As other people have men- capabilities of our special operation forces. tioned, it is following inexorably in tandem behind Moore's law of "Initial experimentation should be focused on the interaction of computing power. Attendant to it, though, is not the creation of electromagnetic energy and the neuromuscular junctions involved new ideas and technologies, but also an exponential growth in the in voluntary muscle control. Theories need to be developed, velocity of information dissemination, and for us that is of extraor- modeled, and tested in experimental preparations. Early testing dinary importance. A key part of this information revolution has an _using in vitro cell cultures of neural networks could provide the awesome impact on competition. The business that introduced a focus for more definitive intact animal testing. If successful, one new product ten years ago could count on probably five years could envision a weapon that would render an opponent incapable efore it had to look seriously at potential competitors based over- of taking any meaningful action involving any higher motor skills seas. Today, you're lucky if you can count on five months or even (e.g., using weapons, operating tracking systems). The prospect of five weeks before you are facing the overseas competitor. In a weapon to accomplish this when targeted against an individual today's world, succ imply demands rapid introduction of suc- target is reasonable; the prospect of a weapon effective against a cessively new products or military systems. Success now goes to massed force would seem to be more remote. Use of such a device the organization which exploits information almost instantly, while _in an enclosed area against multiple targets (hostage situation) may failure is the near certain fate of the organization which tries to hus- —_ be more difficult than an individual target system, but probably and or hide ideas. Real simple—use it or you're going to lose it. feasible. "The third revolution, which is a little bit more complex, is the "It would also appear to be possible to create high fidelity speech military/technological revolution, or in some places called the revo- in the human body, raising the possibility of covert suggestion and ution in military affairs. I'm convinced that this is the first military psychological direction. When a high power microwave pulse in technological revolution ever because we now have, for the first the gigahertz range strikes the human body, a very small tempera- time, a conceptually different way to wage war. We can wage war _ture perturbation occurs. This is associated with a sudden expan- in parallel now. In the past, communications and weapons technol- sion of the slightly heated tissue. This expansion is fast enough to "In the past, communications and | weapons technology, especially weapons accuracy, have constrained us to waging serial war. This changes almost everything." NEXUS + 39 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com