The real version of "Spy Movies"? The U.S. Army plans to create lone agents

According to a report published on April 18 on the Asia Times website in Hong Kong, titled "U.S. Army Plans to Build 'Jason Bourne-style' Super Soldiers," the U.S. Army is trying to train soldiers' senses to reach new levels of perception, allowing them to perceive the details of their surroundings in an almost superhuman way almost unconsciously. The full text is excerpted below:

Fans of the "Spy Movies" series will be familiar with this.

The hidden and lonely agent Jason Byrne possesses near-superhuman abilities thanks to his trained and unconscious insights—all part of the film's fictional covert operation called "Stumbling Blocks."

As CIA agent Nikki Parsons in the film says, "They never make mistakes." They never act arbitrarily. There is always a purpose. There is always a goal. ”

While this is great for a serious movie, it does sound a bit of an exaggeration in the real world.

Are you sure?

According to a recent report by Brett Tinley on the Warzone website, the U.S. Army is trying this impossible thing.

It released a new training circular, one of which was about how soldiers trained their senses to new levels of perception, allowing them to perceive the minutiae of their surroundings in an almost superhuman way, almost unconsciously.

Or as one scientist put it — it's like merging Jason Byrne, Sherlock Holmes, and Tarzan of the Apes into one.

According to the Warzone website, other parts of the circular describe how cultural anthropology, world religion studies, and even Gestalt psychology could be harnessed in army training to turn soldiers into what some call "samurai monks" with near-supernatural deductive reasoning abilities.

While many would scoff at these ideas, the document cites a wealth of case studies of soldiers on the battlefield. In these cases, greater situational awareness could have saved lives.

Moreover, the U.S. Army has already offered this new type of advanced situational awareness training course in Fort Benning, Georgia.

Fort Benning is also home to the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence.

According to the Warzone website, one of the responsibilities of the Center of Mobility Excellence is to oversee the U.S. Army's infantry schools and armored corps schools.

The Training Bulletin, issued by U.S. War Department headquarters in April, outlines a range of technologies and requirements that soldiers can learn about advanced situational awareness training methods that optimize human performance," "by building the necessary skills to develop soldiers who are flexible, resilient, adaptable, innovative, and capable of succeeding in uncertain and chaotic environments."

The document focuses primarily on how soldiers can optimize and improve their observation capabilities so that they can react to anomalies or identify anomalous behaviors or objects that may soon pose a threat.

With this training, the document writes, soldiers can "better understand their organic equipment and systems: their capabilities, limitations, and components."

This stronger sensory perception "can take 'advanced situational awareness' to new heights" and "is critical to the soldier's survival, as the use of sensory systems informs the soldier's decision-making process," the notice said.

The document covers all aspects of cognitive and gestalt psychology, neuroscience, and even sociology, trying to figure out ways to enable soldiers to improve their insight into their environment.

The advanced situational awareness training circular even recommends a better understanding of the motivations of human actors that soldiers may encounter in overseas operations through theological, anthropological, and cultural studies.

According to the Warzone website, the case studies mentioned show that better cross-cultural understanding and perception could have helped avoid terrorist attacks in several war zones overseas. They point out that sometimes a strange debris found on the side of the road can be a decisive factor in saving the lives of servicemen.

However, some of the more bizarre parts of the document describe how soldiers were able to adjust or train their sensory perceptions to respond to threats on an almost unconscious level.

The training circular said: "Soldiers usually use only 2% of the potential provided by smell." ”

"Although these feelings are not fully utilized, they are still able to provide useful target indications," it said. For example, cooking food, fire, cigarettes, aftershave water, soap, and insect repellents can all indicate the presence of a person. ”

Source: Reference News Network