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War is ultimately a human problem requiring a human solution. Experts in the field of conflict resolution maintain that the underlying cause of war is accumulated "social stress" – that is, mounting political, religious and/or ethnic tensions between rival factions in critical hotspots throughout the world.
As social stress builds, divisions grow stronger, groups take sides, diplomats become unable to resolve differences, and enemies arise within or outside the nation. Military force may then be invoked to protect the country, resulting in armed conflict and unpredictable outcomes.
But even if conflict temporarily solves the problem for the victor, the social stress remains, fueling future cycles of conflict. In contrast, the absence of collective stress translates into the absence of tension between competing sides, thereby reducing the probability of hostilities.
Today, any country's military has the opportunity to overcome the cycle of war by deploying a scientifically verified technology of defense that neutralizes social stress. This new technology is based on the unified field of all the laws of nature – the most fundamental and powerful level of nature's functioning. The technology accesses and enlivens this unified field through subjective technologies of consciousness. This creates a profound influence of coherence and harmony throughout society that results in measurable reductions of crime, terrorism and war.
The late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi revived systematic subjective technologies for experiencing the unified field, including the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced techniques. When used in a military context, these meditation practices are known as Invincible Defense Technology. They have been applied successfully by members of many faiths to eliminate conflict.
If the military of any country were to properly apply these non-lethal and non-destructive technologies, it could collectively reduce the societal stress responsible for war and terrorism worldwide.
Over 50 research studies confirm that when the required threshold of IDT experts is crossed – approximately the square root of 1 percent of a given population – crime goes down, quality of life indices go up, and war and terrorism abate.
Scientists have named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect, since Maharishi Mahesh Yogi first predicted it. The causal mechanism appears to be a field effect of consciousness – a spillover effect on the level of the unified field from the peace-creating group into the larger population.
In 1983, a two-month Maharishi Effect intervention in Israel resulted in a 76 percent reduction in war deaths in neighboring Lebanon (p < 0.00000001) when group size exceeded the square root of 1 percent threshold. (Journal of Conflict Resolution; http://www.davidleffler.com/sapratableii.html#b41.) Seven subsequent, consecutive experiments over a two-year period during the peak of the Lebanon war found that:
War-related fatalities decreased by 71 percent (p < 0.0000000001);
War-related injuries fell by 68 percent (p < 0.000001);
The level of conflict dropped by 48 percent (p < 0.00000001);
Cooperation among antagonists increased by 66 percent (p < 0.000001).
The likelihood that these combined results were due to chance is less than one in a quintillion. (Journal of Social Behavior and Personality; http://www.davidleffler.com/sapratableii.html#b13.) A global-scale study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (http://www.davidleffler.com/sapratableii.html#b43) documented a 72 percent drop in international terrorism.
The military of any country is responsible for defending its citizens. It can now succeed in its mission simply by creating a Prevention Wing – a group of IDT experts. The size of the Prevention Wing would be small – approximately the square root of 1 percent of the population of the world.
Given the world population of approximately 6.8 billion, a country could extend its global reach and global power by establishing a Prevention Wing of approximately 8,241 military personnel (the square root of 1 percent of 6.8 billion). A Prevention Wing this large is predicted to reduce war and terrorism globally.
As part of their responsibility to protect their nation, militaries are obligated to thoroughly examine scientifically proven methods for preventing war and terrorism. With the IDT approach all that is necessary is to provide the proper training for a group of military personnel – or indeed, any sizable group.
The military of any country has the opportunity today through IDT to create not only global reach and global power, but also true national security, invincibility and peace. During these dangerous times, quick and decisive action is needed.
For more information visit: http://www.StrongMilitary.org.
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(Retired Major General Kulwant Singh leads an international group of generals and defense experts that advocates Invincible Defense Technology. He was awarded the Uttam Yudh Sewa Medal, the second highest decoration for senior officers during operations in Sri Lanka as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force.)
(Dr. David Leffler, a U.S. Air Force veteran, is executive director of the Center for Advanced Military Science. He served as an associate of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership of the U.S. Army War College. Dr. Leffler has published articles in over 100 media outlets worldwide about how IDT could prevent terrorism and war.)
