Around the Net
Army To Relaunch Burma Brigade For Social Media Campaigns
- The Drum, Monday, February 2, 2015 8:45 AM
A new army unit is to be established to use social media and psychology training in a bid to fight in "the Information age" The 77th Brigade -- formerly known as the Chindits who fought in Burma during World War Two and disbanded 70 years ago -- will be a force of between 1,500 and 2,000 troops trained to use "non-lethal" psychological manipulation through Facebook and Twitter and other platforms.
