{"id":72,"date":"2003-03-31T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T04:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:45:49","slug":"psy-ops-in-the-gulf-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/psy-ops-in-the-gulf-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psy ops in the gulf: part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/2855269.stm\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8220;When we see an Iraqi position&#8221;, explains Sergeant Dan Voss, &#8220;we can make it appear there is an extremely large US force nearby, playing the sounds of tanks for instance or even of a group of US marines charging.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psywar.psyborg.co.uk\/home.htm\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Psychological operations<\/a> really proved themselves in the 1991 Gulf war, according to US officials here.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Iraqis were persuaded to surrender rather than fight US forces, through a combination of leafleting and mobile sound systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> While watching my local ABC news I saw what I thought was the most darkly hilarious thing.  One of the leaflets that the British are dropping has two figures. One a soldier. The other an Iraqi civilian.  Both very glad to see one another.  An underneath it read, &#8220;This time we won&#8217;t abandon you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to find an online pic of that.  But I have found lots of BBC sites saying Americans are the main ones using this psy-ops tactic.  Damn interesting if you ask me.. and you didn&#8217;t.<br \/>\n-Groonk <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we see an Iraqi position&#8221;, explains Sergeant Dan Voss, &#8220;we can make it appear there is an extremely large US force nearby, playing the sounds of tanks for instance or even of a group of US marines charging.&#8221; Psychological operations really proved themselves in the 1991 Gulf war, according to US officials here. Thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,6],"tags":[11,2077],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war","category-world","tag-funny","tag-iraq-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10534,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/10534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}