Neuroweapons and Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW)
Interview with Associate Professor Armin Krishnan for the Solari Report of Catherine Austin Fitts
Interview with Associate Professor Armin Krishnan, expert in security and intelligence studies, on neuroweapons and 5GW, for the Solari Report of Catherine Austin Fitts
We are living in the age of neurowarfare. This is completely different from what we usually think of as “war.” It is not a war between armies of nation-states fought by soldiers with guns or bombs—instead, neurowarfare’s targets are your mind, thoughts, and cognition.
Does this sound like science fiction or a Hollywood movie? Unfortunately, it is not, as we learn this week from my guest, Dr. Armin Krishnan. An associate professor at East Carolina University and, until this year, the university’s director of Security Studies, Dr. Krishnan’s research interests focus on “novel aspects of contemporary warfare,” including military neuroscience and psychological warfare. We discuss different types of neuroweapons and the changing nature of warfare, topics he has tackled in books such as Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare (2016) and Fifth Generation Warfare: Dominating the Human Domain (2024).
Introduction, who is dr. Krishnan, and what made him interested in researching neurotechnologies ?
Listen to the whole interview at Solari
By going through decades of military literature to document neuroweaponry, Dr. Krishnan has taken the neurowarfare topic out of realm of sci-fi or conspiracy into military reality, showing how military strategists have added the human domain to the more established warfighting domains of land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. In the human domain, the brain is the battlefield, including all of the cognitive processes—thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and perceptions—that precede making conscious decisions or taking action. Success in this war is not the attainment of a piece of land but submission of the target’s will, leading to ideological conversion.
Because neuro- and other exotic weapons are so far removed from the average person’s day-to-day reality, most people are oblivious to the fact that there even is a war. About fifth-generation warfare (5GW), Dr. Krishnan writes, “the enemy may fight you with a form of war that you not only can’t see, but even worse, don’t even believe in.” The result? “You never knew you were at war. You never saw what hit you. You never knew there was a chance for victory. You never knew that you were defeated.”
Understanding 5GW and the plethora of neuroweapons with which it is fought is key to regaining fundamental freedoms. None of the constitutional rights that are supposed to protect our freedom have any value without cognitive liberty. As Dr. Krishnan writes:
“Only by strengthening the freedom of the mind and by empowering individuals, rather than subjecting them to overreaching government control, can society become resilient against attacks on the individual and collective national consciousness and prosper.”
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Book Review: Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare
Book Review: Fifth Generation Warfare - Dominating the Human Domain
What is Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW)?