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Infowar evolved with every recent U.S. military foray. In the first day of the Persian Gulf War, Air Force stealth planes armed with precision-guided munitions blinded Saddam by knocking out his communications network and electrical power in Baghdad. The Pentagon launched a sophisticated psy-ops campaign against Haiti's military regime to restore deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Using market-research surveys, the Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group divided Haiti's population into 20 target groups and bombarded them with hundreds of thousands of pro-Aristide leaflets appealing to their particular affinities. Before U.S. intervention, the CIA made...
Commando Solo has already been battle-tested by the 193rd Special Operations Group, a Pennsylvania Air National Guard unit. During the Persian Gulf War, the plane's crew broadcast radio reports to Iraqi soldiers eager to hear uncensored news of the war, including some of the next areas to be targeted by U.S. bombers. As a result, many Iraqi soldiers deserted those positions. To prepare Haiti for the U.S. intervention there, Commando Solo beamed in radio and TV messages from deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Each broadcast began with the crow of a rooster, the symbol of Aristide's political...
Iclearly remember being a first-year in high school when the Persian Gulf War was fought. George Bush heralded the fight as one for the freedom and human rights of the people of Kuwait. At the time, I vehemently championed the sincerity and truth of President Bush's statements, against the somewhat more skeptical comments of my older friends. I argued that the Persian Gulf War was not being fought for materialistic reasons but to keep safe the dream of democracy for those abused by tyrants. My vision of the moral rectitude of the Persian Gulf War has faded through...
...prompted by several concerns: "The extradition of Mousa Abu Marzuk, the suspected Hamas terrorist, the imminent verdict in the World Trade Center trial in New York City, and the Pope's plans to visit Baltimore and New York in October." This is the first national alert since the Persian Gulf War, five years ago. New procedures will include beefing up of airport security personnel, searches of unattended cars at airports, closer surveillance of baggage areas and heightened warnings to passengers not to carry anything aboard an aircraft for someone they do not know. During Desert Storm, more stringent precautions were...
...about the ethnic differences in America in the face of both tiresome political correctness and simmering racial hatred. In his San Diego speech he parodied a pompous white military officer speaking in empty and orotund phrases. Then he mimicked a black sergeant talking about the coming war in the Persian Gulf: "We gonna kick butt and go home." Describing an encounter with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at his White House treaty signing with Yasser Arafat, Powell put on a New York Jewish accent. And he even worked around the edges of gay sensibilities. "Arafat ... is so taken with...