China’s military is developing advanced psychological warfare and brain-influencing weapons as part of a new warfighting strategy, according to a think tank report on People’s Liberation Army cognitive warfare.

The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.

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will seek cognitive manipulation and control of enemies.

Other weapons it is working on include “genetic drugs” — pharmaceuticals designed to modify the genetic and physiological makeup of people and seek to impact cognitive, emotional, and behavioral traits.

Source? A think tank said so.

  • charlie
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    5 months ago

    The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.

    The US military is doing a real bang up job of this without anyone else’s help. On a carrier deployment everyone I knew was running on maybe 4 hours sleep per day and that’s usually averaged out over the week because of all the times you only get an hour here and there and maybe like 6 hours straight on Sundays.

    More projection that the next CO who’s tired watch standers crash their destroyer into a cargo ship can point to instead of the crumbling military complex around them.