[Flowers Were Thrown At Our Feet ] "Lessons Learned in Iraq" senile?

Lessons Learned in Iraq

Decentralized intelligence. In the continuing conflict, a surprise success is ?Dragon Eyes,? a remotely piloted vehicle that can be carried in a backpack. It looks like a model airplane, with a wingspan of only 1.2 meters and weight of 2.5 kg,. It can be launched with a toss, or with a bungee cord. Dragon Eyes is guided by GPS. It flies quietly at an altitude of 150 meters using a zinc-air battery for power, and can transmit 18 frames per second of visible or infrared video from a range up to 10 km. If spotted by the enemy, it is easily mistaken for a bird.

What makes Dragon Eyes so valuable is that it is easy to use (training takes less than a week), and it provides ?actionable? intelligence ? information needed immediately. Soldiers deploy it when they need to know what lies behind that building, or near that bridge. It?s cost is so low (soon to come down to $50k) that it can be ?owned? at the platoon level. (Generals don?t waste time with things that cheap.) In the next two years, the marines will get 342 of these little marvels.

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But skill at psyops is largely a specialty of the Army Special Operation Forces. With the much larger force in Iraq, psyops failed. The average Army soldier has virtually no knowledge of Arabic, and only superficial understanding of local culture. The Marines and the other forces have even less preparation in psyops.

Knowledge of culture goes well beyond not shaking with your left hand, or not showing the bottoms of your feet. For example, if you chase a terrorist into a building, you must knock before entering. Our soldiers now do this. It sounds ludicrous, but if you don?t knock, and as a result you see a woman uncovered (maybe just her face) you could capture your terrorist but create several new ones. A husband or brother or both may feel obliged to take revenge for the insult, to restore family honor, regardless of their political beliefs.
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http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/32-Global_Warming_Bombshell.htm
for a smart man he sure knows how to ignore a LOT of relevant data!?

http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/Roswell/RoswellIncident.html
'nothing was there'

http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/Roswell/NYTimesMogul.html


Back then the Air Force had to protect top-secret information, said Lieut. James McAndrew, an investigator who worked on the report but after 47 years it's good to stop taking a black eye. The Fund for U.F.O. Research Inc., based In Mount Rainler, Md., charges that the Air Force report excludes all the evidence that conflicts with its conclusion, it ignores the many statements from witnesses which describe the unusual strength and light weight of what looked like metal foil and structural beams, the fund said in a statement. Waller G. Haut, president of the International U.F.O. Museum and Research Center, In Roswell, said In an interview that the Air Force was up to its old tricks. It's a bunch of pap, he said of the report. All they have done is giving us a different kind of balloony. Then it was weather, and now it's Mogul. Basically I don't think anything has changed. Excuse my cynicism, but they can't quit playing games.

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http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/whale_songs/

http://www.reopen911.org/Tarpley_ch_6.pdf