Shock and Awe?
There’s news all over the place that the Pentagon is planning to hit Iraq with 800 cruise missles in 48 hours. They call this plan Shock and Awe. CBS News did a story on it, and at the end Dan says: “We assure you this report contains no information that the Defense Department thinks could help the Iraqi military.”
How can that be?
There is no such thing as the Office of Strategic Influence.
Oh wait, or is there? Did you catch it when Rumsfeld said this:
And then there was the office of strategic influence. You may recall that. And “oh my goodness gracious isn’t that terrible, Henny Penny the sky is going to fall.” I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing fine I’ll give you the corpse. There’s the name. You can have the name, but I’m gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have.
I guess it’s the same thing Schwarzkopf did before Gulf War I, wasn’t there some sort of trick where everybody thought there would be a beachhead, and then they attacked from a totally different side or something? I forgot the details.