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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Psychological warfare sure is ... funny, isn't it?

You ever hear about this?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm

For Iraq War 1, the US wanted to develop the ability to project a giant hologram either into or from the sky... of the prophet Mohammed... who would tell the Iraqi forces to stand down, presumably via spec ops placed speaker arrays.... or... something.

... They later realized that no one has any idea what Mohammed looks like.

... Because depictions of him....are widely viewed as heresy by many (most? basically all?) Muslims.

Oh and of course... they did not know how to build a hologram projector in the early 90s, either.

We do apparently know how to do at least something like that now, though.

https://idstch.com/technology/photonics/3-d-holograms-will-be-employed-for-battlefield-intelligence-military-planning-and-explosives-disposal/

this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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