MindWar - From Concept to Practice Redefining WarFare

This article represent my continuing exploration into future potential aspects of modern warfare related to science and psychology, namely IO and it's implementation by examining their respective works and theories of various academics and researchers.

The new type of war proposed here allows subnational groups, nation—states, and multinational alliances to continue contesting with one another. It allows for modest or far-reaching goals. It even retains traditional glamor, emotional fervor, and heroes. The romance of war continues undimmed into the future.

But there are fundamental changes as well. Most immediately and importantly, human beings are not injured or killed, nor are their lands and properties destroyed. Additionally the costs of producing, maintaining, projecting, and implementing the many modern engines of PW destruction are reduced to a small fraction of their current level.

How are these seemingly-incompatible goals achievable? Through a basic reconceptualization of United States war methodology — which, as implemented, will gradually become the model for other war— participants as well. This new type of war is called MindWar (MW).

The research of Dr. Aquino specifically addresses the goals and tools to achieve these results. He outlines a practical path for the replacement of PW. As such, a future planetary environment in which mankind’s war—impulse would be satisfied by MW with our immediate future. However, he does make note of the issue concerning how to compel the decision for either the United States or any other war— habitué to commence the change from PW to MW. And indeed there are powerful interests which would resist such a change, for reasons ranging from war—industrial profiteering to elementary, emotional hatreds of others. Nevertheless, as noted above, the costs for indulging in these PW relics have simply become too great for any nation, and the world collectively, to bear. All that is needed is a practical way out, and MW is that exit and solution.

Aquino makes note of the fact that much like many conceptual ideas, reaching the influential people is problematic. As he clearly articulated, "It would be nice if all statesmen, politicians, religious- and ideological movement—leaders would read and implement it immediately; but that won’t happen". Instead MW needs to be experimentally introduced at a “laboratory” level, both so it can become an example to onlookers, and so that its principles can be refined in practice. Indeed MW is both an art and a science, and neither dimension can be neglected if it is to be successful. In contemporary times, Aquino proposed that the The laboratory is the United States Army, particularly its “Special Operations Forces (SOF)” component.