(WIND WHISTLING)
Danny, Champion
of The World :
Here's what
we're gonna do.
You're gonna stay in the car,
keep the heater running.
I don't want you spending a minute
inside there if you don't have to.
She can only come from here.
You can see her a mile out, easy.
You see lights on the mountain
over there, you blast me, okay?
But I don't want you going in.
Not until she's here.
Abra :
You aren't waiting with me?
Danny, Champion
of The World :
I can't.
Abra :
Why not?
Danny, Champion
of The World :
I have to wake it up.
Excerpt from : From PSYOP to MindWar :
The Psychology of Victory (1980)
by Maj.General Michael Aquino,
US Naval Intelligence, NATO,
Church of Satan,
Temple of Set --
"....According to the present doctrine, PSYOP is considered an accessory to the main effort of winning battles and wars; the term usually used is “force multiplier”. It is certainly not considered a precondition to command decisions. Thus PSYOP cannot predetermine the political or psychological effectiveness of a given military action. It can only be used to point that action in the best possible colours as it is taken.
MindWar cannot be so relegated. It is, in fact, the strategy to which tactical warfare must conform if it is to achieve maximum effectiveness. The MindWar scenario must be preeminent in the mind of the commander and must be the principal factor in his every field decision. Otherwise he sacrifices measures which actually contribute to winning the war to measures of immediate, tangible satisfaction. [Consider the rational for “body counts” in Vietnam.]
Accordingly PSYOP “combat support” units as we now know them must become a thing of the past. MindWar teams must offer technical expertise to the commander from the onset of the planning process, and at all levels down to that of the battalion. Such teams cannot be composed - as they are now - of branch-immaterial officers and NCOs who know simply the basics of tactical propaganda operations. They must be composed of full-time experts who strive to translate the strategy of national MindWar into tactical goals maximize the effective winning of the war and minimize loss of life. Such MindWar teams will win commanders respect only if they can deliver on their promises.
What the Army now considers to be the most effective PSYOP - tactical PSYOP - is actually the most limited and primitive effort, due to the difficulties of formulating and delivering messages under battlefield constraints. Such efforts must continue, but they are properly seen as reinforcement of the main MindWar effort. If we do not attack The Enemy’s will until he reaches the battlefield, his nation will have strengthened it as best it can. We must attack that will before it is thus locked in place. We must instill in it a predisposition to inevitable defeat.
Strategic MindWar must begin the moment war is considered to be inevitable. It must seek out the attention of the enemy nation through every available medium, and it must strike at the nation’s potential soldiers before they put on their uniforms. It is in their homes and their communities that they are most vulnerable to MindWar. Was the United States defeated in the jungles of Vietnam, or was it defeated in the streets of American cities?
To this end MindWar must be strategic in emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing, supplementary role. In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe - neither through primitive “battlefield” leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics - but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth.
These media are, of course, the electronic media - television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the world such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like the sword Excalibur, we have but to reach out and seize this tool; and it can transform the world for us if we have the courage and the integrity to enhance civilization with it. If we do not accept Excalibur, then we relinquish our ability to inspire foreign cultures with our morality. If they then desire moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level.
MindWar must target all participants if it is to be effective. It must not only weaken the enemy; it must strengthen the United States. It strengthens the United States by denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining and emphasising to our people the rationale for our national interest in a specific war.
Under existing United States law, PSYOP units may not target American citizens. That prohibition is based upon the presumption that “propaganda” is necessarily a lie or at least a misleading half-truth, and that The Government has no right to lie to The People. The Propaganda Ministry of Goebbels must not be a part of the American way of life.
Quite right, and so it must be axiomatic of MindWar that it always speaks the truth. Its power lies in its ability to focus recipients’ attention on the truth of the future as well as that of the present. MindWar thus involves the stated promise of the truth that the United States has resolved to make real if it is not already so.
MindWar is not new. Nations’ greatest - and least costly - victories have resulted from it, both in time of actual combat and in time of threatened combat. Consider the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The physical destruction of those two cities did not destroy Japan’s ability to continue fighting. Rather the psychological shock of the weapons destroyed what remained of Japan’s national will to fight. Surrender followed; a long and costly ground invasion was averted."
Yes Prime Minister - Salami Tactics and Nuclear Deterrent
Strategist :
Prime Minister -- you do believe
in The Nuclear Deterrent ....?
[ nods ]
Strategist :
Why?
Prime Minister :
.... Why..?
Strategist :
Whom?
[ blank look ]
Strategist :
Whom does it deter?
Prime Minister :
The Russians,
from attacking Us.
Strategist :
Why?
Prime Minister :
Why, because They know They can't
Prime Minister :
Why, because They know They can't
threaten to launch an attack, or
I'd press The Button.
Strategist :
You would?
Prime Minister :
.....wouldn't I?
Strategist :
Well, would you?
Prime Minister :
.....as a last resort, yes --
....yes, I certainly would, well --
...I think I certainly would --
Strategist :
And what is the last resort?
Prime Minister :
.....if The Russians were to
invade Western Europe
Strategist :
But you only have 12 hours to decide, so
the last resort is also the first response,
is that what you are saying....?
Prime Minister :
.....am I...?
Strategist :
(chuckles) You don't need to worry --
Why should The Russians annex the whole
of Europe...? They can't even control Afghanistan.
No, if They try anything, it
will be Salami Tactics --
Prime Minister :
Salami Tactics....?
Strategist :
Slice by slice -- one small piece at a time.
So, would you press The Button
if They invade West Berlin?
Prime Minister :
....it all depends on what --
Strategist :
Scenario one : Riots in West Berlin --
Would you press The Button?
Buildings in flames; East German Fire Brigade
crosses the border to help --
Would you press The Button?
The East German police come with them --
The Button?
There's some troops, more troops,
"just for riot control", They say, and then
the East German troops are replaced
by Russian troops --
Button?
The Russian troops don't go,
They are invited to stay to support
civilian administration;
the civilian administration closes roads
and Tempelhof Airport --
Now, you press The Button...?
Prime Minister :
....I need time to think --
Strategist :
....Button?
Prime Minister :
....I need time to think about --
Strategist :
You have 12 hours
Prime Minister :
....you're inventing this --
Strategist :
You are Prime Minister today
the phone might ring now
from NATO Headquarters --
Hello, yes....?
NATO headquarters, Prime Minister --
Can you address their annual
conference in April
Prime Minister :
-- I thought I could
I'm not so sure, now --
Strategist :
Yes,
Scenario Two : Russian army maneuvers
take Them accidentally-on-purpose across
the West German frontiers --
Prime Minister :
.....at the last resort --
Strategist :
All right --
Scenario Three : Suppose The Russians have
invaded and occupied West Germany, Belgium,
Holland, France -- suppose tanks and troops
have reached The English Channel, suppose
They are poised for an invasion --
is that the last resort
Prime Minister :
....no.
Strategist :
Why not?
Prime Minister :
We'd only fight a nuclear war to defend ourselves;
How could we defend ourselves
by `committing suicide...?
So what is the last resort, Piccadilly?!
Watford Gap Service Station....?!
The Reform Club...?!
So, when would you
Press The Button...?!
Prime Minister :
.....I would if I had
No Choice.
Strategist :
But They're never going to put you into
a position where you have no Choice,
They'll just continue to keep-on
with Their Salami Tactics --
Dr. Disco :
What is it that you actually want?
(A long pause.)
Bonnie :
War.
Dr. Disco :
Ah. Ah, right.
And when this war is over, when you have a homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're very close to getting what you want. What's it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? Will there be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who's going to make the violins? Well? Oh, you don't actually know, do you? Because, like every other tantrumming child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers.
How are you going to protect your
glorious revolution from the next one?
Bonnie :
We'll win.
Dr. Disco : Oh, will you? Well, maybe, maybe you will win! But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning. So, come on. Break the cycle.
Bonnie : Why are you still talking?
Dr. Disco : Because I want to get you to see,
and I'm almost there!
Bonnie : Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box. A box with everything I need. A fifty percent chance.
KATE: For us, too.
(Both women have their hands poised over the buttons. The Doctor resumes Games Host mode.)
Dr. Disco : And we're off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest? Who's going to be luckiest?
KATE: This is not a game!
Dr. Disco : No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.
(Do a search on Hughie Green if you don't get the reference.)
Bonnie : Why are you doing this?
KATE: Yes, I'd quite like to know that, too. You set this up. Why?
Dr. Disco : Because it's not a game, Kate.
This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought, right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning --
Sit down and talk!
(sigh) Listen to me. Listen, I just, I just want you to think.
Do you know what thinking is? It's just
a fancy word for changing your mind.
Bonnie :
I will not change my mind.
Dr. Disco :
Then you will die stupid. Alternatively, you could step away from that box, you can walk right out of that door and you could stand your revolution down.
Bonnie :
No! I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it.
You think they'll let me go, after what I've done?
Dr. Disco :
You're all the same, you screaming kids.
You know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgivable."
Well, here's the unforeseeable. I forgive you.
After all you've done,
I forgive you.
Bonnie :
You don't understand.
You will never understand.
Dr. Disco :
I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me?
Of course I understand. I mean, do you call this a war?
This funny little thing? This is not A War!
I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know.
I did worse things than you could ever imagine.
And when I close my eyes I hear more screams
than anyone could ever be able to count!
And do you know what you do with all that pain?
Shall I tell you where you put it?
You hold it tight till it burns
your hand, and you say this :
"No one else will ever have to live like this.
No one else will have to feel this pain.
Not on my watch!"
(Kate closes the lid of the red box and steps back.)
Dr. Disco :
Thank you. Thank you.
KATE:
.....I'm sorry.
Dr. Disco :
I know. I know. Thank you.
(to Clara-Z) Well?
(Long, long pause --)
Bonnie :
It's empty, isn't it? Both boxes.
There's nothing in them.
Just buttons.
Dr. Disco :
Of course. And do you know how
you know that? Because you've
started to think like me.
(Clara-Z drops her hand away from the buttons.)
Dr. Disco :
It's hell, isn't it? No one should
have to think like that.
And no one will. Not on our watch.
(their eyes meet) Gotcha.
Bonnie :
How can you be so sure?
Dr. Disco :
Because you have a disadvantage, Zygella.
I know that face.
KATE:
This is all very well, but we know
the boxes are empty now.
We can't forget that.
Dr. Disco :
No, well, er, you've said
that the last fifteen times.
(He sonics the memory filter in the ceiling. Bang!
Osgood leans an unconscious Kate against a rack of stuff.
Clara-Z closes the blue box.)
Bonnie :
You didn't wipe my memory.
Dr. Disco :
No. Just Kate's.
Oh, and your little friends'
here, of course. (The Zygons)
When they wake up, they won't remember
what you've done. It'll be our secret.
Bonnie :
You're going to protect me?
OSGOOD:
You're One of Us now,
whether you like it, or not.
Bonnie :
I don't understand how
you could just forgive me.
Dr. Disco :
Because I've been
where you have.
There was another box. I was going
to press another button.
I was going to wipe out all of
my own kind, man, woman and child.
I was so sure I was right.
Bonnie :
What happened?
Dr. Disco :
The same thing that happened to you.
I let Clara Oswald get inside my head. Trust me.
She doesn't leave.
