#neurowarfare

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A 2020 NATO-backed paper on “cognitive warfare” described the objective as “making everyone a weapon…The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st century.

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Neurowarfare is the strategic takedown of a competitor through the use of neuroweapons that remotely “target the brain or central nervous system to affect the targeted person’s mental state, mental capacity and ultimately the person’s behavior in a specific and predictable way.” Just like cyber warfare, neurowarfare can be waged defensively or offensively. In a defensive capacity, neurowarfare could prevent conflict before it starts, easing tensions by shaping attitudes and perceptions about the potential adversary. In an offensive capacity, neurowarfare could “manipulate the political and social situation in another state,” thus destabilizing the adversary, either as a stand-alone tactic or in conjunction with a military strike. Psychological operations share similar goals but achieve them through communication, typically over the long-term. Neuroweapons physically manipulate the brain and achieve immediate effects.

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Neurowarfare is the strategic takedown of a competitor[viii] through the use of neuroweapons that remotely “target the brain or central nervous system to affect the targeted person’s mental state, mental capacity and ultimately the person’s behavior in a specific and predictable way.”[ix] Just like cyber warfare, neurowarfare can be waged defensively or offensively. In a defensive capacity, neurowarfare could prevent conflict before it starts, easing tensions by shaping attitudes and perceptions about the potential adversary.[x] In an offensive capacity, neurowarfare could “manipulate the political and social situation in another state,” thus destabilizing the adversary, either as a stand-alone tactic or in conjunction with a military strike.[xi] Psychological operations share similar goals but achieve them through communication, typically over the long-term. Neuroweapons physically manipulate the brain and achieve immediate effects.

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Realität als Waffe: Die Anfänge der Neurokriegsführung – Stavroula Pabst | Axel B.C. Krauss

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Neuroethics with Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D.

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Opportunities In Neuroscience For Future Army Applications

Emerging neuroscience opportunities have great potential to improve soldier performance and enable the development of technologies to increase the effectiveness of soldiers on the battlefield. Advances in research and investments by the broader science and medical community promise new insights for future military applications. These include traditional areas of interest to the Army, such as learning, decision making, and performance under stress, as well as new areas, such as cognitive fitness, brain-computer interfaces, and biological markers of neural states.

Advances in research-enabling technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and computational neuroscience, have resulted in instrumentation and techniques that can better assess the neural basis of cognition and allow the visualization of brain processes.

These advances have the potential to provide new measures of training and learning for soldiers while also shedding fresh light on the traditional approaches to behavioral science used by the Army. Most current Army neuroscience research is conducted with little regard given to its longer-term potential for military operations. The report discusses a spectrum of ongoing efforts, with an emphasis on nonmedical applications and on current research that is likely to lead to insights and opportunities for possible military application.

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A good debate on applying neuroscience to warfare is found Here

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (U.S.). (2009). Opportunities in neuroscience for future army applications. Washington, D.C., National Academies

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Emerging Military Technologies: A Case Study in Neurowarfare

There has been considerable recent debate regarding the status of novel military technologies and how the use of these technologies meets the standards of the Just War tradition. These issues are especially problematic within the context of asymmetric warfare, warfare in which the relative military strength opposing forces is significantly different. This paper is an exploration of a particular type of novel military technology, in which soldiers can control military robots or vehicles via a direct neural connection. This emerging field has been labelled neurowarfare (White, 2008, 177), and forms part of a larger discussion regarding how technological advances in the military will shape the ways in which wars are conducted.

Read more HERE

TRIPODI, P., & WOLFENDALE, J. (2011). New Wars and New Soldiers Military Ethics in the Contemporary World. Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.