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Memetics – A Growth Industry in US Military Operations (2006) [pdf]

40 lawrenceyan 12 5/18/2025, 1:26:08 AM apps.dtic.mil ↗

Comments (12)

findalex · 5h ago

...must function unfastened from current PsyOps doctrine which prohibits communicating any PsyOps type message or meme to US domestic audiences.

PsyOps doctrine is an interesting way of saying "the law"... at least until NDAA 2012: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736.

ta988 · 7h ago

There is no antimemetics division.

tandr · 4h ago

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

shantara · 2h ago

The U.S. Army was secretly developing antimemetic weaponry as early as the 1940s.

riffraff · 6h ago

New book coming out soon, for those unaware

dmazin · 5h ago

Ooh, thanks for saying this! I’ll look out for it.

Their collection “humans in transit” is real good.

riffraff · 3h ago

It's a rework of the old SCP story, I asked him what changed and he said "too much to mention".

I read the original online so I'm looking forward to pay for a book just to give back. Agreed on hist short stories too!

aspenmayer · 3h ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250518031649/https://apps.dtic...

globalnode · 7h ago

lol, if it wasn't so dangerous I'd find this hilarious.

bikamonki · 7h ago

This is how Nazism happened.

trod1234 · 3h ago

That's a stretch.

energy123 · 1h ago

It was an example of memetics, just not a centrally controlled one.