Audio as a weapon

erik_squires
BTW, I believe that during WWII a writer at Audio magazine suggested using sound waves to detect submarines, which was actually a highly classified secret at the time.

>>>Wow, I didn’t realize Audio magazine went all the way back to WWII. 🙄

How about Sonar? Would that work? I saw that in Run Silent Run Deep. I used to be in boomers.

The main problem is the diplomats. Look at the end of Vietnam. The exodus was total chaos, Why 100% the idiot American Diplomat.""Graham Martin was technically the field commander for any evacuation since evacuations are part of the purview of the State Department. Martin drew the ire of many in the Pentagon by wishing to keep the evacuation process as quiet and orderly as possible "" yeah idiot.Then look at Barbara Bodine and USS Cole/Yemen. Another diplomat for whom protocol was all that mattered.So the usual sensible things the military would normally do never happen anywhere around Diplomats. Too much who's in charge stuff. Usually all that matters to a diplomat is protocol, looking good. Sort of a Royalty thing x10.

@geoffkait It may have been a writer who was not writing for Audio during WWII, but who did write for them later. I used to be a subscriber to Audio and I believe it is in this magazine that I read the story.

Yes, his idea was describing sonar, but he did not name it as such at the time, it had no such name in the public domain.

As I recall the story, the US navy was already working on or using sonar, but the Audio writer did not know it. He just wrote an article and published it saying it would be a clever idea, which caused some branch of the US to interview him at length about how he came to his ideas.

Elizabeth- I am sorry but I have no idea what you are talking about.?!?? But yes, getting back to the OP question audio can and has been used as a weapon of influence and of war. No one should doubt that.