The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

By David Sirota

I'm a video game geek, so as I sat through movie previews a few weeks ago, I was sure I was watching Nintendo ads. There on the cinema's screen was a super-sleek plane flying over a moonscape while communicating with an orbiting satellite. In the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Yea i have see this ads on American Movies… was thinking ok, USA advertising loves to be propagandize. But once i saw this ad for military for my country it all sound different, its same ad concept but on my own language it was all just like you described…

    And yes in Military there is always blood.

    Croatia (Hrvatska) Posted by Mislav Bajic on Aug 30, 2009 at 3:37 AM

    YOUR TAX MONEY PAYS FOR THESE ADS to ensnare your children.

    The defense budget is massive. Expensive ads are a drop in the bucket. Curtail the budget to curtail the ads.

    Want to support our troops? The ONLY way is to bring ‘em home. Curtail the budget.

    And where is taxpayer outrage over providing ANY department of government with massive advertising/PR budgets? Clearly no government organization has competition, however they all have agendas and, in the final analysis, are in the sole business of self-aggrandizement and expansion.

    United States Posted by John Danilow on Aug 30, 2009 at 5:50 AM
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