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Briant revealed on Monday the Canadian Forces spent more than $1 million in training its public affairs officers in skills to influence targeted populations.

Your personalized propaganda, brought to you by your own tax dollars.

I am Canadian and find such deceit sickening.



You'd rather they dropped bombs than drop leaflets? The level of naïveté here is bothersome.

Truth is the first casualty of war, and it's always been that way.

The Rwandan Genocide was entirely perpetuated with propaganda, and it's unwinding had to (and continues to) make to use propaganda.

The Russians and Chinese are actively engaged in campaigns right now inside and outside their borders, this is not a conspiracy theory it's reported on regular news outlets.

At very least it's something Western Military should have reasonable mastery of, like anything else.


Unconstrained competition inevitably turns into a spiral to the bottom. The purpose of ethics and mores is to put a constraint on competition.

I guess the question becomes: is it more important to you to be right, or to win? Consider both the short-term and long-term effects of your decision.


The catch here being that if you lose, you can go to your grave knowing that you were right. You'll still be dead though.


I have a problem with anyone who takes my money and uses it to drop bombs and deceitful leaflets on me. I fail to see how that is naive.




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