By Dr. David Leffler
The
state-run Saudi Press Agency has announced that 34 nations are forming a
new "Islamic military alliance" to fight terrorism.
But
will this new alliance really be able to prevent future terrorist
attacks and create lasting peace? There is no statistically validated
guarantee that the military strategy of fighting violence with violence
will work. It certainly has not in the past. Why should it now? History
shows that using violence to quell violence ultimately just ratchets up
the level of violence.
There
is hope, however, if the new alliance honors its stated goal that
terrorism "should be fought by all means and collaboration should be
made to eliminate it." Today a scientifically validated means exists to
prevent terrorism and war, and all countries involved in the alliance
could collaboratively deploy it. This scientific approach is known in
military circles as Invincible Defense Technology (IDT). This
field-tested approach to reducing stress and violence is already part of
the training of Brazil's Elite Police force, and has been field-tested
by other militaries. It has been validated by 23 peer-reviewed studies
carried out in both developed and developing nations, including the
Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Independent
scientists and scholars endorse it, based on 25 years of ongoing
research.
IDT Reduces Societal Stress
As
a specially trained military unit, an "IDT Prevention Wing of the
Military" uses IDT to neutralize the buildup of stress in the national
collective consciousness that ultimately fuels terrorism, war and crime.
As collective stress and frustration subside, government leaders and
citizens alike are more capable of finding orderly and constructive
solutions to the issues that have separated them for generations.
Experience
with IDT in highly stressed areas of the globe have demonstrated
increased economic incentive and growth of prosperity. Individual
creativity and entrepreneurship increase as well. With greater civic
calm, citizens' aspirations rise and a more productive and balanced
society emerges. Such a society naturally disallows violence as a means
for change, or as an expression of discontent. With this, the ground for
terrorism is eliminated. Moreover, this positive change in social
trends takes place within a few days or weeks after IDT is introduced.
The changes are measurable from such statistics as reduced terrorism,
crime rates, accidents, hospital admissions, infant mortality, etc.
The
IDT warrior's daily routine includes the non-religious practice of the
Transcendental Meditation technique and the advanced TM-Sidhi program.
Military personnel, functioning as a societal coherence-creating
military unit, practice these techniques together in a group twice a
day, seven days a week, preferably near the targeted population in a
secure location. Their presence need not be disclosed to achieve the
effect of conflict resolution and violence reduction.
Such
coherence-creating groups have achieved positive benefits to society,
shown experientially, in just 48 hours. Modern statistical methods
demonstrate a consistent causal influence of the IDT group on reducing
conflict, precluding chance or coincidence. The IDT approach has been
used during wartime, resulting in reduction of fighting, reduced war
deaths and casualties, and improved progress toward resolving the
conflict through peaceful means. Its coherence-creating effect has also
been documented on a global scale in a study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
When large assemblies of civilian IDT experts gathered during the years
1983-1985, terrorism-related casualties decreased 72%, international
conflict decreased 32%, and overall violence was reduced in nations
without intrusion by other governments.
A
civilian IDT group in Israel decreased the intensity of war in Lebanon
in 1983 in a dramatic way in 48 hours, to name only one of 50 successful
demonstrations. (See a summary of the study, published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and summaries of follow-up studies in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality and the Journal of Scientific Exploration).
CONCLUSION
IDT
is totally unlike any other defense technology because it does not use
violence in an attempt to quell violence. It is a more civilized
approach, yet the IDT defense technology supersedes all other known
defense technologies (which are based on electronic, chemical, and/or
nuclear forces). Therefore, militaries that deploy it gain the ultimate
strategic advantage.
If
the Islamic military alliance defense forces establish Prevention Wings
of the Military, they will ease the current high tensions, reverse
centuries of mistrust and hatred and permanently prevent future unrest.
These IDT units will create genuine and lasting reconciliation and
friendship where there was once only hatred and conflict. The powerful
IDT human-resource-based defense technology disallows negative trends
and prevents enemies from arising. No enemies means no terrorism and
full security, as well as a normal, happy, productive life for everyone.
By
eliminating terrorism and ending decades-old cycles of violence, the
Islamic military alliance IDT units will create lasting peace and
prosperity. Their powerful demonstration of this non-violent peace
technology will gain worldwide attention. They will be honored and
respected as great warriors who served honorably in their militaries for
the betterment of all humanity.
Extensive
scientific research objectively says, "Yes, this approach works." This
is a military "means" that should be championed with "all means." It is
desperately needed. There is truly no other solution.
The Islamic military alliance must act now, before high social tensions inevitably explode again.
About the author:
Dr. David Leffler is the author of "A New Role for the Military: Preventing Enemies from Arising - Reviving an Ancient Approach to Peace." He was a
member of the US Air Force for nearly nine years. Dr. Leffler has a
Ph.D. in Consciousness-Based Military Defense and served as an Associate
of the Proteus Management Group at the Center for Strategic Leadership,
US Army War College. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director at
the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS) and lectures and writes
worldwide about IDT. He is on Twitter and Facebook.
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