And as far out (and dated) as this sounds, Channon’s manifesto took on fabled status among progressive thinkers in the military. In “Beam Me Up Spock: The New Mental Battlefield,”27 a 1980 article for the staid journal, Military Review, Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander argued that “a new battlefield dimension that may defy our general perceived concepts of time and space looms on the horizon. Clearly, psychotronic (mind/matter) weapons already exist; only their capabilities are in doubt.” Even the U.S. Army’s famous “Be All You Can Be” slogan sprang from Task Force Delta’s mission to unlock
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