Modern militaries use directed extreme sound itself as a weapon against people

Evidence

The LRAD, for Long Range Acoustic Device, looks like a large, six-sided drum set on its edge. It’s a tremendously powerful megaphone, designed to deliver 150 dB of sound, fifty times the pain threshold, along a tightly focused and directable beam. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 415

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 415
• XREF: connects to: Living people can be silenced by exploitation and poverty, not only by death — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 407; Sonic weapons cause severe physical harm and injury to civilian populations — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 420; Extreme battlefield noise can annihilate thought and reduce a person to helpless reflex — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 424 (+3 more)

Library Connections

• Extreme battlefield noise can annihilate thought and reduce a person to helpless reflex #exemplifies (0.85) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 424

Broader Connections

• Sound power constitutes a form of imperialistic acoustic domination #expands (0.70) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267