Information Technology: US/Russian Perspectives
Finally, IT can affect the weakest link on the
battlefield: the individual soldier's mind. The mind is not protected by a firewall
as is the computer, and the ultimate operator of equipment, the soldier/leader, is
offered little protection in the IT environment. There are two forms of protection
required: one from physical attacks (electromagnetic pulses, acoustic weapons, voice
synthesis, and so forth) and one from attacks on the perception capabilities of the
mind. This is especially true due to the quick pace of development in the production
of holograms. These can be used to make an army look larger than it is, or to make
life-sized tank and soldier holograms appear to move and thereby confuse or
intimidate soldiers. Hologram technology "uses a laser to illuminate an object and
write its image into a photo-refractive crystal, while another laser projects that
image into a liquid scattering material." Holograms are also being considered for
their value in propaganda productions, such as morphing images of political leaders.
Soldiers require training to recognize misleading information produced from
holograms, voice synthesis or other psychological tricks. |
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Human Network Attacks
It is clear that to both countries, "gray matter" does matter.
Technological developments have made it possible to subject all people, from ordinary citizens to heads of state, to a complex information offensive. Simulated and reproduced voices, fabricated provocative speeches delivered by virtual heads of state, and projected images of actual life situations can affect troops psychologically.
Russian IW modelers try to foresee the application and utility of information weapons... The formation of methods to ensure moral-psychological stability is important to Russian modelers. They want to counter the influence of information weapons that aim to suppress the will to resist, "zombify" the psyche through manipulation and reconfigured thinking, reprogram human behavior and demoralize and psychologically degrade people. |
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Russian Information-Psychological Actions: Implications for U.S. PSYOP
It is July 18,1999, and a battle is raging somewhere on Russia's southern border. During a lull in the fighting, Russian loudspeakers emit provocative messages (produced through voice-synthesis processors) designed to influence or "hypnotize" enemy forces. Holograms, designed to induce fear or uncertainty, display messages and images embellished with cultural and religious connotations. One special hologram, depicting specific combinations of colors and numbers, reportedly causes some bodily functions to shut down. Titanium robots move about the battlefield, shooting leaflets with instructions to the enemy on how to surrender. As the fighting resumes, multiple rocket launchers and artillery rocket attacks pose yet another type of psychological war--one based on the shock effect of tons of explosive ordnance. |
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Dialectical Versus Empirical Thinking: Ten Key Elements of the Russian Understanding of Information Operations
Fourth, and closely associated to the information-psychological element, is a serious attempt by the Russians to harness the energy generated by human beings. The so-called "Computer Operator's Security Problem" is a multi disciplinary one, these scientists believe, connected to the integrative efforts of different areas of knowledge--physics, biology, psychology, cybernetics, philosophy and religion. From this perspective, if man is viewed as an open system capable of communicating with the environment using material, energy and information flows, then it is possible to influence him by means of radiation
(electromagnetic, acoustic, etc.) and to cause changes in the psycho-physiological condition of his organism. In addition to energy sources, information alone can also influence the vital processes of a person if it is properly packaged. This theory appears to have strong appeal for such Russian scientists as Victor Solntsev and Vladimir Pirumov, who often write on information operations.
Solntsev, for example, believes that to all people the world appears as diverse forms of information flows, which everyone processes differently. Certain forms of radiation (energy)-information fields, according to these scientists, can cause disease, disorder of the gums and systems of an organism, modification of behavior, suppression of thinking, manipulation of one's consciousness, and the destruction of one's personality, among other problems. |
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Microwave Auditory Effects 
U.S. Air Force |
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What Is Healing Energy? Part 3: Silent Pulses
by James L. Oschman |
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Information-Age Warfare: A Working Bibliography.
Under Perception Management, PSYOP, Deception Issues, there is a book entitled "Getting Inside the Enemy's Head." Intelligence Newsletter (Le monde du renseignement), 3 October 1996, 7. Discusses the possibilities of cognitive warfare-mind control using acoustical, optical and electromagnetic fields to interfere with an enemy's biological processes. |
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Published material related to the biological effects of microwave radiation and government documents related to the microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
By Nicholas Steneck |
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National Radiological Protection Board. Restrictions on Human Exposure to Static and Time Varying Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation
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Effects of Low Power Microwaves on the Local Cerebral Blood Flow of Conscious Rats
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Microwave Induced Hearing Sensation
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The Microwave Auditory Phenomenon
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Auditory Perception Of Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields
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Microwave Induced Acoustic Effects In Mammalian Auditory Systems
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Electronic Expansion Of Human Perception
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The Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on the Nervous System
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The Microwave Problem
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Analysis of Central Nervous System Involvement
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Electrophysiological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Animals
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Investigation of the Characteristics of Auditory Effects Stimulated by Microwaves Using a Spherical Model
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Space Operations: Through the Looking Glass
Research paper presented to Air Force 2025, August 1996. |
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Information Operations: A New War-Fighting Capability
Research paper presented to Air Force 2025, August 1996. |
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