Information Technology: US/Russian Perspectives
Finally, IT can affect the weakest link on the battlefield: the individual soldier's mind. The mind is not protected by a firewall as is the computer, and the ultimate operator of equipment, the soldier/leader, is offered little protection in the IT environment. There are two forms of protection required: one from physical attacks (electromagnetic pulses, acoustic weapons, voice synthesis, and so forth) and one from attacks on the perception capabilities of the mind. This is especially true due to the quick pace of development in the production of holograms. These can be used to make an army look larger than it is, or to make life-sized tank and soldier holograms appear to move and thereby confuse or intimidate soldiers. Hologram technology "uses a laser to illuminate an object and write its image into a photo- refractive crystal, while another laser projects that image into a liquid scattering material." Holograms are also being considered for their value in propaganda productions, such as morphing images of political leaders. Soldiers require training to recognize misleading information produced from holograms, voice synthesis or other psychological tricks.

Technological developments have made it possible to subject all people, from ordinary citizens to heads of state, to a complex information offensive. Simulated and reproduced voices, fabricated provocative speeches delivered by virtual heads of state, and projected images of actual life situations can affect troops psychologically.

Russian IW modelers try to foresee the application and utility of information weapons... The formation of methods to ensure moral-psychological stability is important to Russian modelers. They want to counter the influence of information weapons that aim to suppress the will to resist, "zombify" the psyche through manipulation and reconfigured thinking, reprogram human behavior and demoralize and psychologically degrade people.

Solntsev, for example, believes that to all people the world appears as diverse forms of information flows, which everyone processes differently. Certain forms of radiation (energy)-information fields, according to these scientists, can cause disease, disorder of the gums and systems of an organism, modification of behavior, suppression of thinking, manipulation of one's consciousness, and the destruction of one's personality, among other problems.

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