“At a congressional briefing in September, a panel of psychologists reviewed new psychological research with battlefield implications.

They presented research across diverse psychology subfields, but with one major commonality: all of the findings apply to improving U.S. military operations at home and abroad. Their presentations spanned human factors, training, recruitment and retention.” —APA Monitor The article does not mention one of the most insidious trends in Pentagon-commissioned psychological research, about which I have previously written here — efforts to subvert the natural human response (‘post-traumatic stress disorder’) to exposure to stress beyond the pale of the human organism’s design capabilities in order to preserve the shellshocked soldier’s efficiency as a warfighting machine on the battlefield.