Breakthrough research and discoveries in human psychology and consciousness might be successfully applied to U.S. efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and globally to decrease violence and accomplish worthwhile objectives.

Personnel using the conventional military and intelligence tools of psychological operations and information operations might find new opportunities by using knowledge developed from other intelligence efforts such as research into "anomalous cognition," "remote viewing" and related fields.

Additional insight might be gained from careful study of the human assets in past U.S. intelligence operations during World War II such as the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and the U.S. Marine Corps Code Talkers.

Combining state-of-the-art consciousness understanding with awareness of the successes of the MIS and Code Talkers, as well as using other resources, can allow U.S. "soft power" to succeed where bullets, bombs, imprisonment and torture have failed.

Effective information operations using films, books, stories and articles, fiction and nonfiction, can all provide valuable perspectives for Americans and for peoples we are dealing with around the world.

For example, the new film FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Clint Eastwood, explores the psychological factors of not only our troops in the Pacific during World War II, but also the persuasion operations by the U.S. Government to influence the American people.

Recent assessments by elements of the U.S. military have concluded that sheer military force, "hard power," when dealing with an indigenous insurgency can often be counterproductive. This is probably true of many situations.

A new Army-Marine Corps field manual focuses on the limits of hard power and the advantages of soft power.

Killing innocent civilians including women and children, securing geographic areas only to lose them again to adversaries and creating more violence and hostility in an area of operations can simply make matters worse.

Making enemies instead of friends is not useful.

These factors, along with many other widely-recognized mistakes in the Iraq and Afghanistan situations, have created and are currently creating increasingly difficult and tragic consequences for the people of these regions, U.S. forces and Americans at home.

The view internationally and here at home that American forces around the world are the "good guys" has been seriously damaged by the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

To try to improve this perception and the underlying realities, significant changes on many levels seem to be indicated.

As far as the actions and decisions of U.S. national leaders that began the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the American people and our system of democracy and justice will hopefully resolve some of these problems.

And people around the world will watch and judge what America does and whether the U.S. is an asset for or danger to world peace.

In the specific challenges facing U.S. and NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, human psychology and human behavior come into play.

This is true for our own forces and for the indigenous people. Both can be positively affected by intelligent and appropriate awareness and understanding of human consciousness research.

What are these specifics and how can they be utilized in successful psychological, information and persuasion operations?

In the Spielberg and Eastwood film, we can get some useful information and viewpoints because there seem to be both similarities and differences regarding World War II and the situation we find ourselves in today.

Media platforms such as this movie teach us, and our friends and adversaries around the world, about the complexities of American society and American history, which also continue now.

Both in World War II and currently, Pearl Harbor and the "new Pearl Harbor" (the 9/11 attacks) triggered the fear and anger in Americans that led to significant militarization of the U.S. and widespread military operations.

In both cases, suspicions arose about whether these Pearl Harbors were allowed to happen on purpose, or even if they were desired to accomplish the aims of U.S. administrations in office.

Some people wanted us to get into World War II just as some now want us to fight a World War III.

And as with most wars and human endeavors, there are many different motivations in these situations that may be honorable or dishonorable. This is more of the complexity that is useful to try to understand.

In FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, one character is the famous and tragic Marine Ira Hayes. He was a Pima Indian from southern Arizona.

The complex factors of his combat service in the Pacific (when "post-traumatic stress disorder" was not fully understood), the pressures on him and others to become public relations figures for the war effort and aspects of his Pima heritage are parts of this new movie.

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