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I am curious if they are open to some friendly competition, like an Army vs. Civilian PsyOp Hackathon. e.g. Pick a soft target, get points for manipulating peo
by LinuxBender 7y ago
I am curious if they are open to some friendly competition, like an Army vs. Civilian PsyOp Hackathon.
e.g. Pick a soft target, get points for manipulating people into doing {x}. Get points for identifying the other sides psychological attempts and neutralizing / countering them. etc.. I would imagine that civilian marketing companies should be some good competition for the Army.
- djsumdog 7y agoand how many points for encouraging depression or suicide? Facebook teams would probably score higher than anyone.
- LinuxBender 7y agoI think that would be out of bounds for a friendly competition. Those types of PsyOps occur on some of the lower echelon forums (chan sites) daily. That would not be much challenge either, as many folk there are already struggling with issues.
- mxuribe 7y agoThat would be fun to see for sure! Further, i imagine top/professional sales, advertising, and marketing firms would look to recruit soldiers from these type of units - much like professional security firms recruit people from military and intelligence agencies. ;-)
- LinuxBender 7y agoIt would certainly help encourage the military to promote and thus retain them. They struggle with retaining air force pilots and so they get promoted very fast. I've met some very young captains and majors. The same is true with their surgeons.