non-lethal Weapons
09.11.2006 um 18:02
Wer sich ernsthaft mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen möchte, der sollte sich das Buch:
Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
vonJohn B. Alexander zulegen. Alexander gilt als der führende Wissenschaftler auf dem Gebiet.
Alexander ist auch Mitglied der Organisation NIDS (die sich unter anderem mitUFOs beschäftigt und in welcher auch Vallée Mitglied ist).
NIDS schreiben zuseinem Lebenslauf:
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Dr. JohnAlexander has been a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons since hecreated renewed interest in the field starting in 1989. An original thinker, he hasdeveloped other unique concepts for conflict that must remain undisclosed at this time.
He entered the US Army as a private in 1956 and rose through the ranks tosergeant first class, attended OCS, and was a colonel of Infantry in 1988 when heretired. During his varied career, he held many key positions in special operations,intelligence, and research and development. From 1966 through early 1969 he commandedSpecial Forces ?A? Teams in Vietnam and Thailand. His last military assignment was asDirector, Advanced Systems Concepts Office, US Army Laboratory Command. After retiringfrom the Army, Dr. Alexander joined Los Alamos National Laboratory where he wasinstrumental in developing the concept of Non-Lethal Defense. As a program manager, heconducted non-lethal warfare briefings at the highest levels of government including theWhite House Staff, National Security Council, Members of Congress, Director of CentralIntelligence, and senior Defense officials. He also met with heads of industry, andpresented at academic institutions, including Columbia, Harvard and MIT.
Dr.Alexander organized and chaired the first five major conferences on non-lethal warfareand served as a US delegate to four NATO studies on the topic. As a member of the Councilon Foreign Relations non-lethal warfare study, he was instrumental in influencing thereport that is credited with causing the Department of Defense to create a formalNon-Lethal Weapons Policy in July 1996. For several years, he has been a distinguishedguest lecturer at the US Air Force Air University and participated in key war games whennon-lethal weapons were first being considered.
Dr. Alexander wrote the seminalarticles on current non-lethal warfare. He published articles in Harvard InternationalReview, Jane?s International Defense Review, The Boston Globe, The Futurist, TheWashington Post, and several other defense journals. Articles about him and his work canbe found in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Sunday Times(London), Panorama (Italy), Konrad (Germany), The LA Times, Wired Magazine, GQ,Scientific American, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and many others. He has appearedon Dateline, Fox News, Larry King, CNN, and other U.S. programs plus internationaltelevision in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands,the UK, and Japan.
Academically, he holds a M.A., Pepperdine University, Ph.D.,Walden University, and later attended the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, theSloan School at MIT, and the Kennedy School of Government general officer program?National and International Security for Senior Executives? at Harvard University. Inaddition to many military awards for valor and service, Aviation Week & Space Technologyselected him as a 1993 Aerospace Laureate and in 1997 inducted him into the Hall of Fameat the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. He received a Department of EnergyAward of Excellence for the Nuclear Weapons Program in 1994, and is listed in Who?s Whoin America, Who?s Who in Science and Engineering, American Men and Women of Science, andin 2001 was named to the OCS Hall of Fame at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
Currently,he works as president of LEADS, Inc., serves as a consultant to CINC US SpecialOperations Command and is a member of the National Research Council Committee forAssessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology. He also writes independently.His current book, with foreword by Tom Clancy, is Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons inTwenty-First-Century Warfare, St. Martin?s Press.
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Durchseine Verstrickungen, einerseits für das Militär Non-Lethal-Weapon zu entwickeln undandererseits UFO-Forschung zu betreiben, wurde er in den Büchern "Schwarze Forschungen"und "Verdeckte Operationen" vom ehemaligen MUFON-CES Mitglied Helmut Lammer starkkritisiert und angegriffen.
