Ordinary soldiers have sometimes shown a battlefield sixth sense [extrasensory perception] that has saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the U.S. military wants to better understand that "spidey sense" and train troops to [militarize the mind and] tap their inner superhero instincts.The U.S. Office of Naval Research pointed to sixth sense research about how "humans can detect and act on unique patterns without consciously and intentionally analyzing them," according to a special notice posted on Feb. 29.
It hopes to encourage such intuition in the brains of new soldiers, Marines, and other troops with little or no battlefield experience....
Glorifying killing and asymmetrical warfare (innovationnewsdaily.com)
But intuition stands apart from step-by-step, time-consuming analytical thinking because it happens both rapidly and subconsciously.... virtual battlefield simulations could help train soldiers' intuitions... The U.S. military already uses game-like simulators to prepare soldiers for battlefield scenarios [as in the video above] or [PTSD]. More
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