Cognitive Warfare and You

by Not Sure

21 September 2025

In the spring of 1998, Timothy L. Thomas wrote an article for the US Army War College Quarterly, Parameters, entitled “The Mind Has No Firewall”. He focused on the data processors within the human body and how those represented a burgeoning terrain in warfare, with a new arsenal of weapons to be deployed.

Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas is a retired U.S. Army officer who served in the 82^nd Airborne Division including two combat tours in Iraq, and is an expert in the military and political particulars of Russia and China with an emphasis on information.

In 2003, Thomas wrote “Is the IW Paradigm Outdated? A Discussion of U.S. IW Theory,” published in the Journal of Information Warfare. Access is denied me for this article, but Thomas was proposing the addition of new paradigms and terminology such as “Mind-Machine” to align the study and implementation of Information Warfare with current technology and what could be seen on the horizon. At that time, new developments were integrating the data processing capabilities of machines with human cognition in ways previously unattainable. Thomas believed that the old Information Warfare paradigm was obsolete.

This is footnote number eight in the 1998 article for Parameters:

Victor I. Solntsev, “Information War and Some Aspects of a Computer Operator's Defense,” talk given at an Infowar Conference in Washington, D.C., September 1996, sponsored by the National Computer Security Association. Information in this section is based on notes from Dr. Solntsev's talk.

Thomas describes Solntsev thusly, “Russian Dr. Victor Solntsev of the Baumann Technical Institute in Moscow…a young, well intentioned researcher striving to point out to the world the potential dangers of the computer operator interface.”

I wanted to discover what other talks and papers Victor I. Solntsev put out on the dangers of the computer operator interface. There is a Victor A. Solntsev whose work is in the field of radio physics and microwave electronics and a Victor Solntsev who states in a bio that he graduated from Bauman University in 1986, Robotic Department and got a PhD in Computer Vision and Decision Making Systems. His post-graduate studies were Psychology and Business Management and he has worked the last thirty years in Teachers Training and Business Education.

I cannot find the breadcrumbs that lead to “Solntsev…a young, well intentioned researcher striving to point out to the world the potential dangers of the computer operator interface.” I cannot find evidence that a National Computer Security Association (NCSA) conference was held in Washington D.C. in 1996. There’s a paper from a NCSA conference in Baltimore, MD in 1994 and mention of a conference in 1991. But we can trust that such a person exists and that he spoke at an event in 1996 because his work and the conference were cited by a retired US army officer specializing in Information Warfare.

For more current discussions on what weapons systems can be deployed against combatants (that’s you) see the work of James Giordano. He pleasantly and engagingly tells you what is, what is possible, and most importantly, why it’s ethical.

Dr. James Giordano: The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N02SK9yd60s

“Real History with Melissa” – Ep. 65 – “Who is Dr. James Giordano?” – May 16, 2024

https://rumble.com/v4vm992-may-16-2024.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_m

Among the weapons currently in use are CRISPR gene-edited ‘precision’ pathologies and Dr. Giordano has touched on the deployment capabilities of this technology in several public talks he has given. His excitement for his work is palpable, even through the computer screen.

See last week’s post on Cutting Through the Matrix/Substack from Tartan Tinker/GundG for more on CRISPR technology and genetic engineering.

Are You Red-Y for the Future?

https://cuttingthroughthematrix.substack.com/p/are-you-red-y-for-the-future

Aerosolized nanotechnology and nanobots is an area that seems to delight Dr. Giordano. So tiny. So lethal.

He delves into the world of Integrative Scientific Convergence which brings all the scientific fields together, integrated and converged. Remember that during Covid, the Canadian government introduced their locked-down and terrified citizens to Biodigital Convergence on their Policy Horizons website, overseen by a World Economic futurist, Kristel van der Elst.

Exploring Biodigital Convergence: What happens when biology and digital technology merge

https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-convergence/

Giordano’s weapons arsenal includes bugs, drugs, toxins, devices, and data and he describes the big scale systems necessary to use these weapons in a variety of ways. They all require some kind of machine learning to increase the volume and velocity of the Integrative Scientific Convergence, to maximize data storage and make it easily retrievable. Distinct vectors must be created. Who gets shared what? According to Giordano, if you are currently between the age of one and seventy, there is an accessible dataprint of you. Your existing data records, the history of you, a fingerprint of you. For this timespan, for your lifespan. These can be aggregated and this allows for metadata analytics. “What you’re ‘Googling’ and looking at online. What you buy”. Giordano describes this information as yoke-able, linkable, stackable.

This is the simple flow of information that is abbreviated I to G and G to I. Individual to Group. Group to Individual. According to Giordano, the level and ubiquity of information about you allows a potent level of tracking.

These are Giordano’s ‘Big Data Caveats’

If it’s assessable, it’s accessible

If it’s tagged, it’s targetable (chem-bio too)

If it’s stackable (the nodes and relationships of your data points), it’s hackable

What’s hackable is manipulable

What’s controllable is corruptible

It’s a pretty straightforward formula that Dr. Giordano provides, but nonetheless I’m going to reword it:

Big Data Warning

You have been given a rating and a value, therefore you can be acquired.

You have been identified and labeled, therefore – even biochemically – you are now a sitting duck.

There’s a heap that’s known about you, and your relationships, and your location. Therefore your body/brain/mind/psyche is a door without a lock on it.

You’ve left the door open, and you’ve laid down a welcome mat. Now you can be duped, conned, fooled, deluded, defrauded, hustled, exploited, and deceived.

You are trainable, manageable, and governable.

Therefore you can be made to rot, decay, to disintegrate and ruin, to become morally depraved.

This is what has happened, and what continues, but no fear! Dr. Giordano has the neuroethics covered and you’ll be given the social and legal framework necessary to seek redress should you discover that you’ve become morally depraved.

Our recorded conversations about Alan Watt’s Waiting for the Miracle are for paid subscribers on Substack for reasons I’ve outlined in detail. In summation: Alan Watt never put the book or the 24 talks with Jackie Patru of Sweet Liberty on the website for free download because he thought the topics discussed should be approached by the serious student, not someone passing through looking for quick answers and snappy sound bites. But I’m going to share something with you that was said by Darin from South Africa who presented two chapters in our most recent recording. He talked about how an idea or meme is floated once, then repeated, and repeated again, and finally after about the eight repetition, it has become part of the person. “As if they always knew it.” Darin described people who, six months ago had never heard of a concept or event, but give them those repetitions and they say, “Oh, yes, I’ve always known that.”

Today’s Alan Watt Redux is from May 6, 2011. Here is the accompanying poem.

Put a Firewall Around Your Mind:

"Psychological Warfare and Psychotronic Weapons,

Powers of Angels, From Hell or From the Heavens,

Weaponized Data can Blow your Cells Apart,

Cause Disorientation or Arrhythmia of the Heart,

Psy-Ops Operations Find its Easiest Delivery

Is Info with Scary Music Leaving You in Misery,

Like the Squawks from Psycho, Your Mind can't Exclude,

The Audio Plus Visual, Creates Terrifying Mood,

Fear-Driven News, To Paralyze Your Feet,

Uses Music so Perfectly, Your Heart Will Match the Beat,

It Hits Your Nervous System, Turns on Fight or Flight,

Sells Panic Commodities, Leaves Wallet Slim & Light,

It's a Jungle Out There, Don't Get in a Bind

By Psy-Ops, Technotronics, Put a Firewall Around Your Mind"

Alan Watt read us “The Mind Has No Firewall” by Timothy L. Thomas. After a station break, before resuming reading, Alan commented that this was not a classified document, obviously, but could be put out because “They do know, the ones who wrote it, that the public would read it, but they wouldn’t understand it. And they wouldn’t retain it if they did read it. Because these weapons have been used on you for a long time, that’s why I’m saying that.”

In other words, we have been on the Information Warfare battlefield, in a way, our whole lives. What is possible is staggering, what is happening now is far beyond what will ever be admitted to.

I mentioned the Adam Curtis six-part documentary from 2021, Can’t Get You Out of My Head. As I cautioned, Adam Curtis has a spin with all he does and the more you study history, the easier it is to spot his gaping omissions. Still, it’s well worth watching. One of his themes is The Individual versus The Collective and there are many interesting observations and historical characters mentioned to illustrate that. This becomes even more compelling when Curtis brings the scientists onscreen, the psychologists, neuroscientists, and behaviourists who support his argument that the individual is not rational but operates unconsciously from dark and hidden recesses, motivated by greed, narcissism, and the quest for personal power.

We live in a PSYOP, but more than that, the biodigital convergence is here if we’re to believe the description of the battlefield given to us by Timothy L. Thomas in 1998, and combine that with what we see being deployed now. Dr. James Giordano describes you and me, sitting at our ‘personal’ computers. The control is real-time and it’s delivered in a unique package just for you, just for me. What your search engine returns, the tone and parameters of your conversation with your own chat-bot buddy. You will be given a bespoke (that’s custom-made, just for you) point of view of current events and this week’s ‘breaking’ psyop and armed with your ‘research’ and quite arrogant assessment that you’ve figured it all out, you’ll browbeat your brother or your neighbor with the club of your POV. Your brother or your neighbor will have their own, custom-made curation of ‘all the news that’s fit to print.’ They are armed with ‘their’ POV. You’ll go at each other for as long as you think it’s necessary or entertaining. You’ve been hacked, controlled, and corrupted.

It is necessary to contrast The Individual as presented by Adam Curtis and The Individual who Alan Watt sought to reach and teach. In the case of the latter, the individual will look in the mirror and face their own culpability and moral decay. They will apply themselves to the only material that is truly theirs to work with and that is their mind. They will erect a firewall and approach their computer with caution, if at all, knowing that it’s a game of Russian roulette. My friend Prince keeps it simple. He will never read anything I write, unless I were to print it out and mail it to him. He says, “Computer people are goners.”