Comparing Military Concepts of Modern Warfare to the 1986 Book "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars"

The 1986 manual outlines a plan to control the masses through manipulation of industry, education and politics, and to divert the public's attention from what is really going on.

Modern concepts of warfare focus primarily around battles over ideas, information and perception, using non-kinetic military actions, "soft power," social engineering, propaganda, cyberattacks and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) deployed from online/offline "bots" or mechanisms acting mostly outside of human control. 

Curiously enough, most of these techniques, except perhaps for the AI bots, were originally used by civilians as part of the normal municipal, provincial and federal political process to choose leaders and set policy.