NETWORKED COMMUNICATIONS
PROPAGANDA
It is heavily implied that the acting government uses many forms of media to push their “Roach” propaganda to the masses via the soldiers responding to a small village seemingly disconnected from the modern age and even those villagers know about roaches enough to report them and be in great distress upon seeing them. The propaganda methods used by the government most likely don't differ from what has been used in the past and even today, people most likely receive their news from one source; the military in this case, and also most likely have little to no access to conflicting information in general due to censorship or the inability to concern themselves with such things, as seen in the village where daily life seems to be enough of a struggle without the "roaches" plaguing them. The propaganda couldn't be clearer from the soldiers perspective as they have their vision augmented to show these "roaches" as disgusting monsters and are fed lies about how they're fighting for the future and cleaning up the world from the filth that it contains.
“Jews are lice they cause Typhus” [1]
PARALLEL TO HISTORY
Propaganda is a vital aspect of how the acting government has convinced its citizens to allow a genocide, this tactic of dehumanizing an enemy is not new, but the means in which the government ensures it have changed. During WW2 Germany used propaganda extremely effectively to disguise their true intentions and deceive not just the German public but the international public to justify the war and violence against innocent civilians. A specific example of propaganda is the picture in the bottom left, an antisemitic poster published in German-occupied Poland in March of 1941. The Poster, written in Polish, but clearly from the Nazi party, was an attempt by the Nazis to instill fear of Jews in the Polish. The existence of such posters indicates that in our past there have been multinational efforts to push an ideology in foreign countries that the movie parallels exactly with it’s multinational fear of “roaches”. The people in the foreign country that Stripe is deployed to have almost all bought into the ideology that is being pushed onto them, though we see no propaganda we see the effects of it very clearly via the villagers throwing out all of their food simply because a “roach” touched it.
COMBAT COMMS
All of the soldiers share not only simple voice communications via a radio, but a form of visual communications thanks to their MASS implants. Used in tandem with the drone that can communicate to all of them and the "boomer" they can go into a mission with large amounts of intel and effective communications. The radio they use seems unchanged compared to modern methods and is integrated to their helmets. The communications system they share with the drone they used is far more impressive however, much like a VR headset can achieve they are looking through the "eyes" of something else, they can seemingly easily link their MASS to the drone suggesting a complicated framework for communications between devices and people similar to how a computer on a network can access files from a server.
MASS NETWORK
All MASS implants in soldiers can be remotely accessed with the right credentials and everything about the MASS is shown to be able to be controlled by external devices. Later on in the movie we see Stripe lose his vision at the press of a button as well as memories from the MASS network played back to Stripe on command. All of the soldiers dreams are also controlled via this network. All of these abilities suggest that there may be a master server that every MASS implant can connect to and be controlled from much like a server at an office may be able to remotely activate, shutdown, or alter the state of any machines on it's network. This concept is further corroborated by the terminal that the psychologist uses (pictured) to modify Stripes dreams later that night, as well as the handheld device he uses to take away Stripes vision and play back recorded memories as if they were simply files on a server.