{"id":934,"date":"2008-05-11T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2008-05-11T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T00:15:40","slug":"the-information-war-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/the-information-war-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"The information war in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">ndrew Exum<\/span> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.org\/index.php?article=672&amp;p=2\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting account<\/a> of how the U.S. Army did hearts and minds in <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Iraq<\/span> five years ago&#8230;<br \/>\n<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the fall of 2003, I was an officer in the U.S. Army, leading a special operations unit in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I inquired as to what psychological operations resources I had at my disposal, I was given two well-meaning soldiers armed with bullhorns.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They spoke, they admitted, no Arabic, but they had an Arabic-language recording they could play on their Cold War-era speaker system.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy, meanwhile, had a keen understanding of how to use the internet and the pan-Arab satellite stations to shape the narrative of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Exum has an interesting account of how the U.S. Army did hearts and minds in Iraq five years ago&#8230; In the fall of 2003, I was an officer in the U.S. Army, leading a special operations unit in Iraq. When I inquired as to what psychological operations resources I had at my disposal, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}