Based on Chapter 1

Episode Description: Before we had algorithms, we had cats. In the series premiere of Mind Fields, Joshua McDonald travels back 3,000 years to uncover the origins of psychological warfare. Discover how Persian King Cambyses II used religious superstition to paralyze the Egyptian army, how the biblical judge Gideon used sensory overload to simulate a massive force, and how a single whisper broke the Siege of Medina. We explore the "Trinity of PsyOps"—Belief, Perception, and Trust—and reveal why the hardware of the human brain hasn't changed since the Bronze Age.

Keywords: military history, sun tzu, ancient warfare, psychology, persia, egypt, gideon, bible history, strategy, mind control, influence