"In true 5th generation warfare, you do not know who your opponent is. For example, who is reponsible for, who is the puppet master behind the Covid crisis as we've experienced it? Is it anyone we know? Is it Klaus Schwab? No, there's something above Klaus...Biden, Fauci..? These are all surrogates. You don't really know who is managing the message that has been propagated on you. That's true 5th generation warfare. In the last three years, Western governments, non-governmental organisations, transnational organisations, the pharmaceutical industry corporations, media and financial corporations have co-operated via public-private partnerships to deploy the most massive, harmonised psychological and propaganda operation in the history of the world. In the last three years, you have been subjected to the most massive, harmonised psychological and propaganda operation in the history of the Western world... with this campaign, the governments of many Western nation states have turned military grade psychological operations, strategies, tactics, technologies and capabilities developed for modern military combat against their own citizens...The world that many of us believed existed no longer exists, if it ever did." (1)
Whether or not you see it on TV, military psychological operations are definitely a thing:
"PSYOP SOLDIERS STRATEGICALLY INFLUENCE AND DECEIVE
As a Psychological Operations Specialist, you’ll be an expert at persuasion. You’ll assess and develop the information needed to influence and engage specific audiences. You’ll broadcast important information through various mediums and assist U.S. and foreign governments, militaries, and civilian populations.
As a Psychological Operations Officer, you’ll be a master of persuasion and influence, and an expert in political trends, cultural trends, and attitudes of the people in your given area of operation. You’ll utilize your understanding of social psychology and individual and group dynamics to influence individuals, groups, and populations." (2)
"101 Information Operations Task Force (101 IOTF). A hybrid specialist unit providing stand-off capabilities and delivering operations in conjunction with 5 IOTF or sovereign operations delivered solely at stand-off as part of Information Operations Task Lines.
201 Company. 201 Coy is a specialist-hybrid sub-unit comprising OSINT Collection, Data Innovation, Digital Information Activities. Trained to a high level in web-based communication, security and analysis, with language skills and cultural expertise, the Coy comprises Regular, Reserve, Specialist Reserve and contract personnel.
202 Company. 202 Coy is a specialist-hybrid sub-unit producing high quality video, audio and graphic products to industry standard. Drawing on a breadth of creative skills from both Regulars, Army Reservists and Specialist Reserves, it is a creative agency in uniform. All of this exists within a well-equipped stand-off facility to provide:
* Strategic Communications planning
* Narrative Assessment
* Industry standard Broadcast, Print and Social Media knowledge
* Artist and Graphic Design Specialists
101 IOTF recruit specialisms from the following broad areas:
* Photography, Videography & Post-production
* Journalism & Writing
* Marketing & Communication
* Media relations
* Social media, Digital content & online influence
* Information Technology/AI
* Academia & Research (information/mis-information)
* Media monitoring & analysis
* Measurement & Evaluation." (3)
Your mind is the battlefield. Every part of your cognitive experience - thoughts, memories, emotions and so on - can be manipulated to pressure you towards particular goals. The same is true of your bodily feelings and sensations.
"In cognitive warfare, the human mind becomes the battlefield. The aim is to change not only what people think, but how they think and act. Waged successfully, it shapes and influences individual and group beliefs and behaviours to favour an aggressor’s tactical or strategic objectives. In its extreme form, it has the potential to fracture and fragment an entire society, so that it no longer has the collective will to resist an adversary’s intentions. An opponent could conceivably subdue a society without resorting to outright force or coercion.
The aims of cognitive warfare can be limited, with short time horizons. Or they can be strategic, with campaigns launched over the course of decades. A single campaign could focus on the limited aim of preventing a military manoeuver from taking place as planned, or to force the alteration of a specific public policy. Several successive campaigns could be launched with the long-term objective of disrupting entire societies or alliances, by seeding doubts about governance, subverting democratic processes, triggering civil disturbances, or instigating separatist movements. It seeks to sow doubt, to introduce conflicting narratives, to polarise opinion, to radicalise groups, and to motivate them to acts that can disrupt or fragment an otherwise cohesive society." (4)
Your mind is the battlefield. The more aware you are of how your moods work, the more you will be able to react coolly to the provocations we see every day; the more skilled you are with language, the more considered your response can be. Interesting Times will be making some suggestions in those areas. If you're still sane after the last few years, congratulations, and keep going.