Many of you may remember the First Earth Battalion field manual and follow-up descriptions of the protonauts by this author. Here is a recent contribution that was penned by Dr, Barton Kunstler adjunct faculty. He
provides a 21st century look at such a leadership skill base to aim at..

Sponsored by the Proteus Project at The Army War College and passed on by our friend Bill Moulton:

THE PROTEUS PROJECT
Monograph series
U,S,Army War College
Dr, Barton Kunstler 

 Mental
• Higher intelligence.
• Ability to read others’ thoughts.
• Exceptional ability to learn and memorize.
• Mind over matter (mediated by technology), i.e., direct control of machines via thought.
• Mental integration into a wide variety of institutional and information networks.
• Mind-to-mind interfaces; mind-sharing and group-minds.
• Exploration of “higher” states of consciousness and “psychic” powers.
• Ability to interfere or intervene with others’ neural processes or one’s own.
• Completely new areas of learning and exploration—hidden worlds revealed.
• Ability to generate mental models more similar to complex simulations than the diagrammatic schemata we generally use—“juggling with six arms.”

Perceptual
• Hyper-enhanced senses.
• Remote extensions of sense, i.e., ability to smell at a distance.
• Interventions in processes between initial sensory input and brain to enhance perception.
• Extra-sensory, “sixth, seventh, and eighth senses” (Axel, 2004).
• Extreme proprioception, i.e., sensory awareness of internal bodily processes, with enhanced ability to control them.
• Sharing the sensory experience of others in real time.
• Ability to direct chi, or ki, subtle vital energies associated with tantric and martial arts practices.

Physiological
• Every bodily system more efficient and powerful.
• Significant advances in longevity.
• New levels of mind/body integration.
• Super-muscles—speed,strength,agility,flexibility,coordination, elasticity.
• Robotic implants of organs as well as bones, muscles, ligaments, etc.
• Cross-species genetic implants for strength and new mental perspectives.
• New limbs—artificial, regrown, genetically engineered, nano- enhanced.
• Increased speed at which signals travel along and between nerve cells.
• Greater ability to withstand cold, pain, and extreme deprivations.
• Faster reaction times, superior balance.
• Regulation of key bodily functions: temperature, heart rate, immune system.

Thank You Barton and Go Planet

This article was provided by Jim Channon.