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Editorial
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In ‘All's fair in love and war’—reviewing Mind wars, brain research and national defense by Jonathan Moreno and Military psychology, clinical and operational applications edited by Carrie Kennedy and Eric Zillmer—Edgar Jones (professor in the history of psychiatry at Kings College, London) examines the science of warfare and the activities of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in using neuroscience to assist national security, especially those applications that may make warriors more efficient and control civil unrest. Professor Jones explains the ambiguity, whereby—down the years—the professional combatant usually feels at peace with war and uneasy with peace and better able to perform in the real theatre than simulated danger. And he deals with the confusions of contemporary asymmetric warfare, whereby the soldier does not see an enemy camouflaged within civilian society, or otherwise distanced from the battlefield through the use of long-range weapons. He remains sanguine on the concept that
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