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To: Pokey78
Knowing that the press will print anything, without compunction or any consideration of security, I believe I would want the real plan to be in print.

As it is, the enemy is likely to screen all the plans that have found their way into print. And logically conclude that the real plan is the one plan that hasn't been printed.

Accordingly, in this climate, the greatest security might be found in having none, at all...

5 posted on 09/21/2002 8:32:52 PM PDT by okie01
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To: okie01
Right, they print all the possible "war plans" they could come up with and it only serves to frighten and confuse the enemy rather than inform him. so far reports are low on specifics - good sign these are deliberately leaked. ...

But I am unhappy with this report ... a previous report spoke of an invasion from Kuwait that was such an obviously inferior plan I was happy to see it out as disinformation ... this, unfortunately sounds too GOOD of a plan.

My hope is that they are trying to signal to the military of Iraq with this leak "hey, we are not against you, it is saddam we are after" ... and hoping for some cooperation there (coup d'etat anyone???):

What is already clear, however, according to senior officers and others familiar with emerging "concept of operations," is that unlike the 1991 war, neither Iraq's infrastructure nor its military rank-and-file would be targeted. Instead, the U.S. military is thinking about how to execute a sharply focused attack on Hussein and the people and institutions that keep him in power.

8 posted on 09/21/2002 8:58:40 PM PDT by WOSG
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