COVERT MILITARY OPERATIONS, BIOENGINEERING AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF VIRUSES: AN IGWUEBUIKE DISCOURSE

Abstract

In the Art of War, Sun Tzu (544 B.C – 496 B.C), the ancient Chinese military tactician, outlined combat subterfuges to dismantle the enemy. His strategies not only involve physical combat. It also includes using swift psychological dexterities to paralyze the opposition. Military generals around the world have studied Sun Tsu, mastered his tactics and made exponential improvements. Thus, the portrait of modern warfare is that of a theater of apocalyptic death. Think of the horrors of mass-killer viral attacks, thermonuclear pulverization, sonic soundfrequency weapons, lethal gaseous nerve agents, the manipulation of electromagnetic spectra for destructive purposes, etc. The threat of nuclear annihilation hunted humanity during the time of the Cold War. The Cold War indeed ushered in an era of rapid anti-human scientific and technological intensification. Two super heavyweight economic ideologies, viz the Anglo-American capitalism, and Soviet Communism, were masturbating and exhibiting their erectile military narcissism. It was a time of looming fear— unbridled arms race, socio-economic sabotage and psychopathic war-mongering. It was also be beginning of race to conquer the space, hence the installation of spacebased complex planetary reconnaissance spy satellite systems. The Cold War era spiked-up mass brainwashing and unmitigated propagandas. We were told that the battle line was drawn between ‘demon-’ driven MarxistLeninist authoritarian eastern communism and ‘angelic’ Anglo-American exploitative imperial capitalism. However, these two world powers pushed the rest of mankind into taking sides. The Cold War gave mischief makers insatiable Dracula-kind of bloody appetite for developing and stockpiling mass destroyer-weapons, including bioweapons (BW) which herein is my main focus.