Whether the war will be 'catastrophic' etc. (was: Re: Everybody Have A Nice War!

Brian O. Sheppard bsheppard at bari.iww.org
Thu Mar 20 18:39:53 PST 2003


On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:


> Another thing is, you can't rule out the possibility that the tactics and
> strategies they use in the war are being affected by the fact that the global
> anti-war movement exists. They are going to great lengths in the media to
> emphasize that their strategy is 'shock and awe against the military',
> not 'shock and awe against the population'. That's not what Ullman originally
> told CBS when he was gleefully boasting about 'taking down the city' and so
> on.

And there seems to be an increasing likelihood that "Shock and Awe" was simply Psy-Ops, touted with the knowledge that Iraqi soldiers would hear about it and thus demoralize them. So far, there hasn't been "shock and awe" but a much more piecemeal approach.

Could change, but it's worth thinking about.

Brian



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