[Infowarrior] - JASON: Well-rested enemies are dangerous

[Richard Forno]

(I wonder how much was paid to come up with this groundbreaking  
scientific insight........rf)



JASON Warns of Threat from Sleeping Enemies

The Pentagon should “monitor enemy activities in sleep research” says  
a newly disclosed report (pdf) from the elite defense science advisory  
panel known as JASON.

The JASONs were investigating the potential for U.S. adversaries “to  
exploit advances in Human Performance Modification, and thus create a  
threat to national security.”

Their report examined “the present state of the art in pharmaceutical  
intervention in cognition and in brain-computer interfaces, and  
considered how possible future developments might proceed and be used  
by adversaries.”

Among their findings was the underappreciated significance of sleep  
and the possibility of a “sleep gap” (a term not used in the report).

“The most immediate human performance factor in military effectiveness  
is degradation of performance under stressful conditions, particularly  
sleep deprivation.”

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http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/06/jason_warns.html