Neurowarfare - It's Not Science Fiction Anymore

"Neurowarfare: It’s Not Science Fiction Anymore with Dr. Armin Krishnan"

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By Elze van Hamelen

We are living in the age of neurowarfare. This is completely different from what we usually think of as “war.” It is not a war between armies of nation-states fought by soldiers with guns or bombs—instead, neurowarfare’s targets are your mind, thoughts, and cognition.

Does this sound like science fiction or a Hollywood movie? Unfortunately, it is not, as we learn this week from my guest, Dr. Armin Krishnan. An associate professor at East Carolina University and, until this year, the university’s director of Security Studies, Dr. Krishnan’s research interests focus on “novel aspects of contemporary warfare,” including military neuroscience and psychological warfare. We discuss different types of neuroweapons and the changing nature of warfare, topics he has tackled in books such as Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare (2016) and Fifth Generation Warfare: Dominating the Human Domain (2024).

By going through decades of military literature to document neuroweaponry, Dr. Krishnan has taken the neurowarfare topic out of realm of sci-fi or conspiracy into military reality, showing how military strategists have added the human domain to the more established warfighting domains of land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. In the human domain, the brain is the battlefield, including all of the cognitive processes—thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and perceptions—that precede making conscious decisions or taking action. Success in this war is not the attainment of a piece of land but submission of the target’s will, leading to ideological conversion.

Full Report: https://solari.com/neurowarfare-its-not-science-fiction-anymore-with-armin-krishnan/

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