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.
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/