I wonder if our friends in the military can comment?

[Michael Watts]

As a Marine Corps Veteran it sounds disgusting and a waste of money.

 

[popeye1978]

In the late-1990s / early-2000s network-centric warfare was the "in" thing of discussion in the US Navy ... at the time it was a concept of how to manage information/data coming-in from sensors on multiple ships that could be thousands of miles apart, and once you had the data, how was it used? There were a lot of thought exercises as to how it worked but -- to me as a young officer during those times -- it was a lot of talk that either made no sense or just generated more questions because the real problem was what to tell the designers tasked with making a nebulous & undefined thing work.

I think what the Canadian military is trying to do is master persuasion which can then be used in psychological operations, such as the leaflets dropped on Iraqi troops during the Gulf Wars urging them to surrender
... there has been a lot of research on persuasion -- it's really the art of advertising & selling -- so there are many theories of what to do, but like network-centric warfare, how do you make it work?
... when you're dropping leaflets on an enemy urging them to surrender, how do you say it in such a way that convinces them surrendering is a good idea rather than just piss them off?

When it comes to using it on Canadian citizens, though, I'm inclined to believe there are more details than just those reported in the article

 

[pontiacgp]

In the late-1990s / early-2000s network-centric warfare was the "in" thing of discussion in the US Navy ... at the time it was a concept of how to manage information/data coming-in from sensors on multiple ships that could be thousands of miles apart, and once you had the data, how was it used? There were a lot of thought exercises as to how it worked but -- to me as a young officer during those times -- it was a lot of talk that either made no sense or just generated more questions because the real problem was what to tell the designers tasked with making a nebulous & undefined thing work.

I think what the Canadian military is trying to do is master persuasion which can then be used in psychological operations, such as the leaflets dropped on Iraqi troops during the Gulf Wars urging them to surrender
... there has been a lot of research on persuasion -- it's really the art of advertising & selling -- so there are many theories of what to do, but like network-centric warfare, how do you make it work?
... when you're dropping leaflets on an enemy urging them to surrender, how do you say it in such a way that convinces them surrendering is a good idea rather than just piss them off?

When it comes to using it on Canadian citizens, though, I'm inclined to believe there are more details than just those reported in the article

so they are going to drop leaflets urging us to surrender?....