This project concerns NLW by attempting to mandate which weapons Western governments can or cannot use. If this study is accurate, then acoustic weapons are not currently viable. Two forms of NLW-targeting schemes were discussed. Function targeting centers on the ability to intrude, interfere, deceive, disrupt, delay, deny, disorient, incapacitate, simulate and manipulate the enemy. Disrupting an enemy and sending him into chaos is the desired end state.
All weapons are acceptable from legal, ethical and political perspectives.
They produce reversible effects against personnel, are expeditionary and provide options in situations where lethal force might not be appropriate. These weapons are to augment lethal force, not replace it. If one were to exist, it would be based on nerve stimulation using electrical impulses. The weapon would cause little or no physical trauma and would affect the largest human target touch derived from the skin organ with 21 square feet of receptor surface. The holdup on development is not the nerve-stimulation effects but the delivery to the target.