Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities’ with Bioscience

The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Research Lab’s “Human Effectiveness Directorate,” and it’s the latest in a series of out-there military ideas to mess with adversaries’ heads.

For years, armed forces and intelligence community researchers have toyed with ways of manipulating minds. During the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. In the 1970s and 80s, a small group of special operations soldiers at Ft. Bragg supposedly tried to teach themselves how to kill with psychic power - the basis for the upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. In 1994, one Air Force researcher proposed spraying enemies with “strong aphrodisiacs [which] caused homosexual behavior.” Last year, the National Research Council and Defense Intelligence Agency pushed for pharma-based tactics to weaken enemy forces

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Best comment on story 'IZealot' says:

How to degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive capabilities: Step 1 - Create a grid which provides electricity at low cost to all citizens within and around the enemy’s field of influence. Step 2 - Give/provide affordable televisions to all citizens within same region. Step 3 - Reality tv and junk food. Outcome: Brains occupied by mindless drivel, intelligence lowered, obesity increased, enemy performance and cognitive capabilities severely degraded. Mission accomplished.