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| Subject: How U.S. Marines Are Using ‘ESP’ To Weaponize Intuition Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:54 am | |
| How U.S. Marines Are Using ‘ESP’ To Weaponize IntuitionJuly 6, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor The U.S. Navy’s research arm has developed a training program to help Marines weaponize their intuitions—in essence, pushing young riflemen to trust their guts in order to detect ambushes, spot buried bombs, and know who to trust on chaotic, urban battlefields. It’s almost a military effort to teach Extra-Sensory Perception, or ESP. “This is an attempt to improve what regular people already have,” John Alexander, the author of The Warrior’s Edge and an expert in fringe military research, told The Daily Beast. The Office of Naval Research’s four-year, $4 million “sensemaking” initiative, launched in 2014, “depends on extracting environmental cues, interpreting their meaning and then connecting them in a plausible story.”(READ MORE) |
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