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2003-03-26 Iraq

There’s a lot we just don’t know about this war

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Posted by kgb 2003-03-26 09:52 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You'd have to have a peculiar sense of the world not to believe that, especially relative to the amount of energy spent forwarding information, there has been very little information available. I thought I'd add my uninformed two cents to the mix. By (seemingly) bypassing urban quagmires & heading straight for the heart of Iraq, we have affected two things in addition to what's in this article: we have put a huge pressure on the (probably degraded) Iraq command structure to commit to a plan; and, in stretching our army across the desert, we have likely also stretched out their military resources across the desert. Who's more capable stetched out?

Posted by Rawsnacks 2003-03-26 10:26:28|| 2003-03-26 10:26:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The size and timing of the sandstorm was known before the ground forces moved out.
My question:
Was it known before the 48 hour deadline was given?

Posted by Dishman 2003-03-26 13:06:04|| 2003-03-26 13:06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the Israeli generals are interpreting things from the viewpoint of Israeli operations, and don't have a clue about this type of large-scale warfare. We've moved "500 km". There's NO PLACE in all of Israel that's farther than 500km from any other. Having the advantage of spending 26 years in OUR military intelligence structure, I think I have a pretty good idea what's going on. Most of that information, btw, has come from blogs, rather than news articles. Most of the commercial news organizations are out to report a certain way, to keep their readership. That frequently interferes with their reporters' abilities to "see" beyond their immediate surroundings. The proof of this observation is in the reports filed by those reporters covering Coalition headquarters. There's far more going on, both within military units and within their headquarters organizations, than most of those reporters even have a clue about. The biggest problem facing most of those reporters is that they have no idea what the military is capable of doing, what the military organization is like, or what the individual soldier has been trained to do. They're whistling past the graveyard, trying to make sense of something that is totally alien to them and their mental processes.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-03-26 13:08:50|| 2003-03-26 13:08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Shahak points out that the Americans are engaging in psychological warfare, far more than they have in conflicts in the past 20-30 years.

I'd say the spooks at CIA and NSA have been working on the mind-f*** for quite some time.
I'm sure some of the military guys that post here regularly would agree that the DOD, CIA, and NSA have psy-ops plans that would stand your hair on end...
The Special Ops guys have probably been in country for months, the spies, defectors, plants, disinformationists...
I agree with the Israelis and Old Patriot, there is so much going on that we can't begin to know the half of it.

Posted by Celissa 2003-03-26 18:27:52|| [www.celissasblog.com/weblog.php] 2003-03-26 18:27:52|| Front Page Top

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