It is traditional to refer to the top members of the
military as the "
top brass" (because of all their shiny
metal medals won in past campaigns). It follows, naturally, that a
weapon bearing this name would be on which had the effect of destroying only the brass -- the leadership of the
armed forces -- while leaving the regular troops intact, but leaderless.
And how best to accomplish this? One way by which this could be accomplished would be to artificially induce a sudden and sharp increase in
emotional intelligence and intellectual
sensitivity amongst those leaders -- so that they suddenly found themselves contemplating
philosophy and the
arts, and so simply no longer interested in overseeing bombing and killing.
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