Manipulation Technologies: China actively prepares its soldiers for a cognitive war - the media

Experts pay attention to the means of manipulating the consciousness of the soldiers of a potential opponent, strengthening their own forces against such influence. How psychologically prepared by the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China (NVAK) is said in Defense One. First of all, the observers point out that in future conflicts the influence of rational factors, such as science and logic, on individual knowledge, will probably be weakened.

The emotional health of the fighters will come to the fore, as the human brain and knowledge have become an important branch of military confrontation. Analysts emphasize that operations in the cognitive sphere are aimed at capturing the enemy's mind and changing his thoughts to form his decisions and actions.

Representatives of the NVAK say that there are three stages of suppression of the enemy - first he is forced to feel "I can't" and "I do not dare", and then achieve the effect of "I do not want". Given such predictable threats, the Media of the NVAC is also increasingly caring for the reflection of such attacks and strengthening the will of their troops in the psychological aspects of war. "War is not only a material but also a spiritual competition.

People are always a decisive factor in the war, and the effective functioning of people depends on the support of good psychological situation and stable psychological qualities," Chinese analysts said. In this case, soldiers and officers are taught to resist mental disorders, improving their adaptation and endurance on the battlefield, and ideology comes to the rescue.

As a result, such training can help the troops cultivate "revolutionary heroism", which acts as a "spiritual sword" to overcome and defeat the enemy. And this is attached to the recent importance, the authors of the publication emphasize. In the technical aspect for the assessment of the psychological state of the fighter, each NVAK soldier gives out bracelets with intellectual sensors, which can provide physiological data in real time and promptly direct a psychological consultant.

"Bracelets are part of the intellectual psychological monitoring system that allows you to continuously record information about officers and soldiers, evaluate their psychological state in real time through feedback and archive them," the publication reads. In addition, the Chinese army began to use virtual reality simulators more actively, which immerses the military in deep stress so that they feel like in a real battle.

Also in the PRC is created training halls, where psychological group trainings are conducted. There, servicemen can get psychological consultations, emotional and physical discharge. Finally, the observers write that the rates in the cognitive wars can be really high.

According to one Chinese expert at the Academy of Military Sciences, the military confrontation, at first glance, is a confrontation between the tough forces of the two sides, but at a deeper level, regardless of the nature of the war and purpose, it is, after all, to the competition of human will.