Creating alternate realities, simulating crises and gauging human responses to propaganda. A real life Sim City psyop. Brought to us in part by professor Alok Chaturvedi of Purdue University. The same University that also brought us the bogus 9/11 simulation.

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/020910.Sozen.Pentagon.html

What is it with Purdue?

http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/print.html

Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale

"The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.

Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project.

"SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP)," the paper reads, so that military leaders can "develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners"

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"Yank a country's water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next. "

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"In fact, Homeland Security and the Defense Department are already using SEAS to simulate crises on the US mainland."

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"The idea is to generate alternative futures with outcomes based on interactions between multiple sides," said Purdue University professor Alok Chaturvedi, co-author of the SWS concept paper."