Nato's Cognitive Warfare : A "battle for for your brain" - Workers Today https://workers.today/natos-cognitive-warfare-a-battle-for-for-you-brain/

NBIC – nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science “Victory will be defined more in terms of capturing the psycho-cultural rather than the geographical high ground.”

“If kinetic power cannot defeat the enemy,” it said, “psychology and related behavioural and social sciences stand to fill the void.”

This weaponization of neuroS/T can and will be fatal, the NATO-sponsored study was clear to point out. The research can “be utilised to mitigate aggression and foster cognitions and emotions of affiliation or passivity; induce morbidity, disability or suffering; and ‘neutralise’ potential opponents or incur mortality” – in other words, to maim and kill people.