The brain is the battlefield of the future
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> Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany - Norman Ohler
> [The book shows] how the entire Nazi regime was permeated with drugs - cocaine, heroin, morphine and methamphetamines, the last of these crucial to troops' resilience and partly explaining German victory in 1940.
> [The author] is explicit that drugs cannot explain Third Reich ideology, but their promiscuous use impaired and confused decision-making, with drastic effects on Hitler and his entourage, who, as the war turned against Germany, took refuge in ever more poorly understood cocktails of stimulants.
It’s much more cost effective to spend some money in helping an incompetent populist become president of a country than it is to invade said country. If you play your cards right, he’ll polarize the civilians so much that they will attack each other (Brazil has an election this week, let’s see how that goes)
It’s also a class war. When your infant mortality rate is increasing but your “too big to fail” companies are getting billions in bailouts, that is an act of war from the rich. It’s just undercover.
Colonialism has been done for millennia, although Europeans "mainstreamed" it in the 18th century.
Neocolonialism (where you don't physically invade a country by using the military, but economic means like forcing them to agree to disadvantageous deals) is a more recent development. This video goes into more detail about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Ax-psPZ1g
The difference in compensation for supervisory and non-supervisory workers (related with their productivity) is huge today, but it was not that big in the 1970s. That is a recent event.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/25/race-sha...
Governments today are explicitly endorsing what I'm saying above. The U.S. Los Alamos lab has been wargaming financial warfare for decades, for example.
Countries have "fought" each other using various non-kinetic means for millennia. We are not in WWIII.
They did not work as well as initially hoped.
During World War One, the government provided cigarettes to soldiers to help ease boredom and reduce stress. Prior to the war, less than 0.5% of American people regularly consumed cigarettes. By the war’s end, approximately 14 million cigarettes were distributed daily.
According to Lukasz Kamienski, a political science professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, and author of Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War, cocaine also became a drug of abuse on the frontlines. People turned to the drug to boost energy, combat fatigue, and reduce wartime anxiety. It gained popularity when the British army created a drug known as “Forced March,” a combination of cocaine and a cola nut extract. People then began to self-prescribe the drug as a wartime aid.
Many of the soldiers’ wives and girlfriends sent packages of cocaine and heroin purchased from London pharmacists labeled as “useful presents for friends at the front” or sometimes “welcome presents for friends at the front.”
"The Mind Has No Firewall"
Timothy L. Thomas
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.55540/0031-1723.1871
Recommended Citation:
Timothy L. Thomas, "The Mind Has No Firewall," Parameters 28, no. 1 (1998), doi:10.55540/0031-1723.1871.
https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/new-tech-new-concepts-chin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Terrain_System
which was being promoted around the same time.