A Disinformation Strategy

The Moscow Times ^ | Apr. 3, 2003 | Pavel Felgenhauer

[Dialup Llama]

>The most outrageous piece of strategic disinformation released last week was that U.S. forward units were out of food and that restocking would take more than a week.

Heheheh. The Operational Pause, a classic.

[aposiopetic]

If one pierces through the many lies both sides have circulated, the true picture looks like this: The allies have never been truly bogged down.

[demlosers]

Heheheh. The Operational Pause, a classic.

And our idiot press lapped it up.

[KarlInOhio]

The toughest part was eating all 3 daily MREs while letting the embedded reporter only have one.

[presidio9]

And our idiot press lapped it up.

And it takes a Russian to point it out for us. I wonder if this paper is translated into French. Or Garafalo.

[thoughtomator]

"The most outrageous piece of strategic disinformation released last week was that U.S. forward units were out of food and that restocking would take more than a week. Perhaps the intelligence officer who invented that yarn was reading some account of the American Civil War, when food rations arrived by mule."

The funniest part being that it was a major focus of CNN, MSNBC, and NY Times coverage for days.

[Cold Heat]

The author get's it! Nice read.

[kms61]

It turned out that way, but from my reading, it seems shock and awe really was the plan until events dictated otherwise.

[TennesseeProfessor]

All last week, the authorities deliberately fed the press and pundits with fake stories of the campaign plan gone wrong

So it was the military's fault that all the media claimed we were losing the war?

[Kadric]

I still don't think the reporters heard right. It wasn't Operational Pause but Operation Pause.

[winner3000]

/i The funniest part being that it was a major focus of CNN, MSNBC, and NY Times coverage for days. /i

Yeah. It's funny using these bozos to give disinformation to the enemy. It will be a bitter pill to swallow to these leftist media that they helped us win!!

[spodefly]

Oh come on ... there is no way that the hyper-intelligent press, led by such luminaries as The New Yorker's Michael Wolff could have been deceived by the Neanderthals in the military. They are much too sophisticated for that. Why just a few moments ago I saw Michael on CNBC recounting the grueling 24 hour plane ride to Doha, and the long hours devoted to wrangling the truth from CentCom ... surely someone as worldly and erudite could not be a victim of a disinformation campaign based on 2500 year old military tactics.

[Paleo Conservative]

It turned out that way, but from my reading, it seems shock and awe really was the plan until events dictated otherwise.

Are you sure? Our forces seem to act like a jazz band. They have objectives they want to reach, but seem to have wide lattitude to improvise when opportunities arise. The Iraqis have a limited repetoire, and have difficulty executing the scores they have practiced.

[WOSG]

The 1993 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Somalia after an unsuccessful encounter in Mogadishu (the story told in the movie "Black Hawk Down") is still very much on everyone's mind. Americans are soft and afraid of close encounters: If more than Mogadishu's 19 soldiers are killed, the American public will press for an end to hostilities. After Sept. 11, this it is not so, but that notion has not yet sunken in.

When are these clueless foreigners going to wake up to the fact that we have a New President since 1993??? They keep mis-underestimating W and his strategery!

[WOSG]

LOL.

[WOSG]

NO NO NO ... the funniest part is how NYTIMES is the *unwitting* ally of Pentagon disinformation because their kneejerk anti-Bush behavior is so PREDICTABLE!

[montag813]

The best part of all this was Monday's DOW selloff (200+ pts) on this phony data. This gave agile traders a huge opportunity to grab the best stocks at bargain prices before the midweek blastoff which will continue through week's end.

[jennyp]

Our forces seem to act like a jazz band. They have objectives they want to reach, but seem to have wide lattitude to improvise when opportunities arise.

I like that analogy!