By Maj. Gen. (R) Kulwant Singh, Dr. David Leffler and Dr. Kurt W. Kleinschnitz
India is approaching a moment of historic significance for both national defense and the nation’s overall quality of life and economic well-being. Nearly ten thousand schoolchildren are close to reaching the critical threshold required to generate a powerful global field effect of national coherence and social order through the large group practice of Transcendental Meditation and the advanced TM-Sidhi program. Their efforts represent one of the most remarkable humanitarian achievements in modern history. These individuals are helping to establish a human resource-based defense system grounded in decades of peer-reviewed research and validated by military field tests. Together they show that a more peaceful world can be created when these brain-based technologies are practiced regularly in large groups. This unprecedented accomplishment, which opens the door to lasting world peace, deserves the recognition and gratitude of the entire world.
Yet admiration alone is not enough. At present, the responsibility for national security and global peace in India rests on young schoolchildren, who cannot maintain a consistent presence because they take holidays. The optimum arrangement for proper deployment requires a continuous twice-daily influence.
Since civilian groups and schoolchildren cannot sustain a continuous national defense posture, it becomes clear that this responsibility belongs to the professional armed forces of India. Their mission is to safeguard the nation around the clock, every day of the year. Given this mandate, the Indian defense community would be wise to take the lead in deploying what many military experts are calling Invincible Defense Technology (IDT).
IDT is a brain-based military defense system, which has been field-tested and validated by experience. It is a non-religious practice, scientifically-validated and available for immediate application by all branches of the Armed Forces of India. Research published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation reports that during periods when large assemblies of IDT experts are active, global terrorism drops by 72 percent and international conflict decreases by 32 percent.
Research published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution reports that decreases in societal stress are associated with reductions in hostility and violence, and the authors propose that lowered social stress serves as the mechanism linking group practice to these outcomes.
Additional peer-reviewed research in Social Indicators Research and Studies in Asian Social Science further documents the measurable impact of large IDT groups in reducing crime and improving social stability.
Military field-tests have demonstrated IDT effectiveness many times over. The armed forces of Mozambique conducted their IDT deployment in the early 1990s, and Ecuador’s military carried out its own successful implementation in mid-1995. Both nations reported unprecedented positive outcomes when IDT units were active in the preventative wings of their militaries, including ending civil violence and establishing and maintaining peace and prosperity for those nations.
Mozambique, in particular, went from being the poorest country in the world to becoming an African economic superstar, starting at the time of IDT intervention. Its 15-year-old civil war ended, its decade of prolonged drought ended, and its president, the esteemed Joaquim Alberto Chissano, the former President of Mozambique (1986–2005), was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in 2007.
In 1978 a demonstration project sent 1400 IDT experts to five global trouble spots, including Lebanon, Iran, Rhodesia, Kampuchea, and Nicaragua. Even with this small number, hostilities decreased by 17 percent and cooperation increased by 13 percent, as reported by Orme-Johnson and colleagues.
During the Lebanese civil war (1983 to 1985), IDT assemblies in Israel, mounted for the purpose of demonstration and research, were associated with a dramatic 45% decrease in war intensity. A second follow-up study by Davies and Alexander found a 66% boost in cooperation between antagonists in that war during the periods of IDT implementation by civilian participants.
How Does IDT Work?
Invincible Defense Technology is held to operate at the level of the unified field of all the laws of nature. The unified field described in modern physics is one thousand million million times (10¹⁵) more powerful than the nuclear force, yet IDT does not harness this power for destruction. Instead, it uses this deeper level of natural law to create social order and coherence by reducing societal stress, and generating a peace promoting influence that strengthens national security without harming anyone. Any nation that understands this strategic reality will recognize that IDT represents not only the most advanced and humane defense capability available today, but also the path to permanent world peace.
Pakistan’s defense and academic communities are aware of the emerging IDT developments in India as well as in other countries. The peer-reviewed paper “A New Role for the Military: Preventing Enemies from Arising – Reviving an Ancient Approach to Peace” was published in 2009 by Pakistan’s Journal of Management & Social Sciences, demonstrating that the concept has already entered Pakistan’s strategic discourse. Pakistani defense outlets, including Pakistan Defence, Pak Armed Forces, PAKSOLDIERS: Pakistan Military & Defence News, PAKISTAN Defence Blog, Defenders Pakistan and Defence Journal have all discussed IDT and its implications. With this level of awareness, it is only a matter of time before Pakistan’s military begins developing a fully operational IDT capability of its own. India’s armed forces must recognize this reality and act with the urgency required to ensure that India leads, rather than follows, in the global deployment of unified field-based defense.
India’s defense community is not unaware of this research discussed in these publications. Numerous Indian defense publications (and many other international outlets) have examined IDT’s strategic potential, including Defence India, DefenceX, Indian Aerospace & Defence, Indian Defense News,¹ Indian Defence News,2 Indian Strategic Studies, India Defence Research Wing, South Asia Monitor, CLAWS Focus [Centre for Land Warfare Studies], India Defence Consultants, Indian Defence Review, Indian Defence, and Security And Political Risk Analysis (SAPRA).
Indian Defence Review (IDR) and DSA (Defence and Security Alert) have also published speculative analyses exploring how IDT units could be deployed near high-risk regions such as the coasts of North Korea to reduce the probability of nuclear escalation.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has repeatedly emphasized India’s growing leadership role in promoting global peace and harmony. This vision aligns directly with the deployment of IDT. Thus, the responsibility for maintaining a large, stable, and continuous IDT group cannot rest solely on civilians. Ideally a group of ten thousand must be maintained without interruption to achieve global effect. Only the military and paramilitary forces have the structure, discipline, and continuity to ensure that such a group remains active every day of the year. Military personnel rotate through leave schedules, but the institution itself never sleeps; it is always on duty. This is why logic demands that the military take responsibility for deploying and sustaining the peace-promoting technology of IDT.
The students in the 10,000 Assemblies have demonstrated extraordinary foresight, intelligence, courage and commitment. They have shown the world what is possible. They have brought India to the brink of a new era in defense strategy. They deserve honor and gratitude. But they should not be asked to carry the full weight of national security. That responsibility belongs to the armed forces.
India now has an opportunity to lead the world into a new era of creating peace. The technology is ready. The research is clear. The global need is urgent. The only remaining question is whether India’s military leadership will act with the resolve required to protect their nation, start the transition to lasting peace, and fulfill the promise of Invincible Defense Technology. The time to assume that responsibility is now.
About the authors:
Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Kulwant Singh, UYSM, Retd.
Dr. Kulwant Singh received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Defense Studies from Chennai University. He fought in combat and led India’s fight against India’s intransigent terrorism problem for nearly 30 years. Maj. Gen. Singh was awarded the Uttam Yudh Sewa Medal, the second highest decoration for senior officers during operations in Sri Lanka as part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). To add to his credit, Maj. Gen. Singh has successfully led an international group of generals and defense experts that advocate IDT. He has published extensively on IDT in countries around the globe.
David R. Leffler, Ph.D.
David R. Leffler is a US Air Force veteran and Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Military Science, specializing in IDT. He has presented internationally on the military applications of this approach and has published widely on its potential to reduce conflict.
Kurt W. Kleinschnitz, Ph.D.
Kurt W. Kleinschnitz is a physicist and US Navy veteran who researches EEG indicators related to the field effects of consciousness. His work focuses on the scientific understanding of how group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs can reduce conflict and increase societal order.
