Silent Systems: A Technical Manual on Behavioral and Economic Automation: A Modernized Writing of "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: A Modernized Introdu

By Michael Cohn

Silent Systems: A Technical Manual on Behavioral and Economic Automation
A Modernized Rewriting of "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars"

This book is a complete modernization and technical restructuring of the controversial 1979 document Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. Instead of preserving the original's unverified claims and ideological tone, Silent Systems extracts the underlying systems-analysis concepts-economic modeling, behavioral feedback loops, cybernetics, and automated decision frameworks-and reframes them using twenty-first-century technology.

This manual explains how modern influence systems actually operate: through data, algorithms, incentives, information flows, and automated infrastructure-not through secrecy or conspiracy. Drawing from operations research, control theory, behavioral economics, and contemporary socio-technical engineering, it provides a clear and structured analysis of:

How economic and behavioral systems function as interconnected networks

How influence can occur through automated processes rather than overt force

How data, AI models, and algorithmic governance shape societal behavior

How feedback loops, delays, and system inertia generate predictable outcomes

How modern institutions use modeling tools to manage risk, optimize resources, and stabilize large-scale systems

Where vulnerabilities, ethical risks, and oversight challenges arise in automated infrastructures

Silent Systems is written for analysts, engineers, policy professionals, technologists, and any reader seeking an objective, technically grounded understanding of modern socio-technical influence mechanisms. It strips away mythology and replaces it with actionable clarity.

This book does not advocate manipulation, control, or coercion. Its purpose is educational and analytical: to provide readers with the tools to recognize, understand, and evaluate the systems that increasingly shape economic behavior, information flows, and public decision-making.

Whether you are a student of systems theory, a practitioner working with data-driven platforms, or someone trying to understand how influence operates in a digital society, this manual offers a direct, unembellished, and technically rigorous framework for navigating the modern world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2FY7QNL
• ISBN13: 9798274427586
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"