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How oil and natural gas are causing cracks in the Shia world

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... Articles The US Invasion of IraqWith the attack on Iraq in 2003, the United States overturned the Sunni Arabminority of Sadddam Hu... ...itical force,and the ex-people of Saddam Hussein became the leaders of ISIS in Iraq,and many of them also became dominant figures of ISIS in Syria.Rem... ...erefore the Sunni Arabs of Syria were not the onesto hold the top positions in the Syrian public sector and in the Syrian army.On the contrary, the Su... ...ia-Ethnicity-Summary-Map.pngSpeaking of deserts, I must also add the map of Jordan. Jordan is apredominantly Sunni Arab country, and deserts (orange) ... ...o a desert (Negev), and obviously the SinaiPeninsula is a desert.The Map of Jordanhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/jordan_veg_1986.... ...heirallies i.e. Assad, should govern Syria. That would be a problem for the IraqiShias, if they were to align themselves with Turkey, but there is no ... ...can say for sure that there will be competing forces. There will be theShia Iraqis who will call for the traditional alliance with Iran, and there wil... ...will call for the traditional alliance with Iran, and there willbe the Shia Iraqis who will call for normalization with the Sunni world. I canalso say... ...a Shia civilwar.Also note that Iraq has been traditionally cooperating with Jordan, becauseIraq needed Jordan to reach the Red Sea, in order to avoid ...

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...Samuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the Continental Army after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844) The Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1845/46) Desertion Handbill by Juan Soto (1847) "The War with Mexico" North Star Editorial (1848) Address to the New En...

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...Table of ContentsSamuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the ContinentalArmy after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844)The Diary of Colone... ...land Convention by Frederick Douglass (1849)Four Documents on Disaffection in the South During the Civil War (1864/5)Open Letter to President McKinley... ... And Despised" by Bill Clinton (1969)Excerpts from Scanlan's Guerrilla War in the U.S.A. January 1971 IssueTo the Soldiers of El Salvador by Lillian J... ...Commencement Address at Milton Academy by Marian Wright Edelman (1983)June Jordan Speaks Out Against The 1991 Gulf War(1991)Letter from Palestineby Ra... ...e particularly know. —Wendell Berry June Jordan Speaks Out Against the 1991 Gulf WarCorrect me if I'm wrong, but thi... ...s they missed Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden; the at least tenthousands Iraqis so far killed; the fifty to hundred thousand killed in Dresden; them...

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...imary Role for Air Forces. ............ 41 Performance-The IQAF and IIAF in Strategic Strikes . ......... .... ... .. ......... ...... ........... .... . 48 Performance-The IQAF and IIAF in Strategic Defense ... .. ......... ... A career air intelligence officer, he came to Maxwellfrom duties as a Middle East intelligence analyst in the Regional Estimates Divisionof the Assis... ...ilitary observers were entertainedby the ineptitude of the combatants ."2 And now, two years later, the Iraqis have beenforced to withdraw from virtua... ...mmer, Arabflyers were still able to strafe Israeli positions with impunity. By late summer,however, the Iraqis had ceased operating in the north since... ...bitteredthe British by his vehement hostility to the British-sponsored Baghdad Pact (a posturethat kept Jordan and Syria from joining) and by his stri... ... fighters.Iraq, like Britain, was in an anomalous situation with regards to Israel. Iraq movedtroops to Jordan to help that state fend offpotential Is... ...aq movedtroops to Jordan to help that state fend offpotential Israeli attacks. Should Israel havehit at Jordan as well as Egypt, Britain would have to... ...enemyvulnerabilities. Syrian planners were a poor second cousin to the Egyptians in thiseffort, and the Iraqis were completely out of the picture. The...

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...This paper explains why the Iraqi performance in Desert Storm was predictable: Nonindustrialized, third world nations are incapable of fielding a decisive, conventional air force. To illustrate the point, this essay studies Iraq’s performance in the war against Iran. Dur...

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...Political Involvement 2 Organization of the Air Force 3 Organizational Summary 5 Notes 6 2 TRAINING 7 Importance of Training 7 Public Education in Iraq 8 Iraqi Military Training 9 Foreign Training 10 The Training Factor 11 Notes 13 3 EQUIPPING 14 Expanding the Military in Iraq 14 Growth of the Iraqi Air Force 15 Iraq’s Money Supply 17 Problems of Acquisition...

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... Disclaimer This publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in... ... of academic freedom and the advancement of national defense-related concepts. Theviews ex- pressed in this publication are those of the author and do... ... 7 Importance of Training 7 Public Education in Iraq 8 Iraqi Milit... ... an example of the failure of nonindustrialized air power.Outclassed in all aspects of the war, the Iraqis clearly stepped out of their league militar... ... system, on the other hand, has not kept up with this newwealth. As recently as 1988, 55 percent of Iraqis were considered illiterate. A m3 ... ...hases from the Soviet Union don't includespare parts or maintenance capability. 15 Conceivably, the Iraqis may have purchased moreaircraft than they c... ...6), 145.6. Dees, 8.7. The list included Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan, Philippines, P... ...an fighters were dropping bombs on Baghdad, Iraqi fighterswaited out the attack for several days in Jordan and the Gulf states, leaving their own coun...

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...t missiles possess to disrupt an opponent’s land-based airpower and achieve significant political consequences. Iraq’s use of Scud ballistic missiles in the 1991 Persian Gulf War produced nearly instantaneous political effects. The Scuds did not threaten the coalition military forces opposing Saddam Hussein, but instead threatened the existence of the coalition itself by n...

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... October 1995 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interest ofacademic ... ...d the advancement of national defense-related concepts. The viewsexpressed in this publication are those of the author and do not reflect the official... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Map 1 Locations of V-1 Ski-Sites in France and Ranges to London . . . . . 59 2 V-1 Launch Areas in ... ... Scud-B range. To strike Teheran in retaliation forattacks on Baghdad, the Iraqis (with considerable foreign assistance)modified the Scud-B to extend ... ...sts did not have a firm estimate of Iraqi missile numbers, but believedthe Iraqis to have 800–1,000 Scud-Bs and Al-Husayns.15 The total number of miss... ...d emitting the same electronic signature. However,during Desert Storm, the Iraqis set up, launched, and were on the move againin as little as 10 minut... ... Israel responded with airpower, Israeli aircraft wouldhave to fly through Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria to get to Iraq. Husseinbelieved that those ...

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...A brief summary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, and how these historic events were related to terrorism, and more specifically to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State....

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...nfluence was something the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat paid with hislife in 1981. Sadat was murdered by the Egyptian islamists, I guess with thehel... ...ecause Egyptwas, and still is, a country of great geopolitical significance.In 1979 the Iranian Islamists overturned the pro-American Monarch of Iranw... ...th the Carter Doctrine of 1980they declared that if the Americans interests in the Middle East werethreatened the United States would use military for... ...ct of Al-Qaeda of Iraq goes to PakistanAbu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian thug, arrived in Pakistan in 1989, inorder to receive military t... ...war onthe side of the Arabs and the Pakistanis.In 1993 Zarqawi went back to Jordan, and he set up his own terroristorganization. His aim was to overth... ...up his own terroristorganization. His aim was to overthrow the pro-American Jordanian Kingand to turn Jordan to an Islamic emirate.The Jordanian King ... ... he was also closely cooperatingwith Saddam Hussein who was pro-Soviet. The Iraqis gave the Jordaniansfree oil, and the Jordanians allowed the Iraqis ... ...ns. Remember thatSaddam is an enemy of Saudi Arabia too. The Saudis and the Iraqiscooperate against the Iranians, but they are enemies. They are all c... ...ing closer to China, in order to boost her oil exports. The Iranians andthe Iraqis, together with certain Saudi and Qatari circles were supportingterr...

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...Terrorist organizations are always created to promote the interests of various countries, most of the time their interests in the oil and natural gas industries. This essay explains why Al-Qaeda is a business, which is actually true for all terrorist groups. I.A. July 2016 ...

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...they were about to leave from Afghanistanin 1988, and they actually did so in 1989, Osama bin Laden, a rich Saudi,together with his Arab comrades, wer... ... 1989, Osama bin Laden, a rich Saudi,together with his Arab comrades, were in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets.In 1988 Osama bin Laden, with his best ... ...they agreed with the Americans that noneof them would militarily intervene in Afghanistan. The Chinese had foughtthe Soviets in Afghanistan too, but t... ...dis did not have to take suffer the terrorist attacksof the Egyptians, the Iraqis and the Syrians against their Trans-Arabianpipeline, which carried t... ...-Arabianpipeline, which carried their oil to the Mediterranean Sea through Jordan andLebanon.Map Trans-Arabian Pipelinehttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... ...6 Saudi Arabia stopped the Trans-Arabian pipeline. It only left thepart to Jordan, to have influence in Jordan. Egypt was now an Americanally, and Sau...

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...is to identify criteria that will provide objective analysis of a halt-phase strategy. This study identifies the key criteria by examining air combat in three operations: the Battle of Bismarck Sea, the 1973 Golan Heights battles of the Yom Kippur War, and the Iraqi Republican Guard escape from Basra. This examination focuses on air operations looking for tactics, tactical...

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...-phase strategy. This study identifies the key criteria by exam­ining air combat in three operations: the Battle of Bismarck Sea, the 1973 GolanHeight... ...vance or retreat of significant ground formations.This study evaluates each case in three major phases: prehostility preparation,conduct of combat ope... ...on and training appear dominant with C2, doctrine, and technologybeing recurrent in allowing air forces to halt an enemy surface force. The spe­cific ... ... It is bounded to the north byLebanon, to the east by Syria, and to the south by Jordan.28 The Israelicultural centers of Galilee and the Jordan River... ...though largely rocky.The steep western escarpment gives a commanding view of the JordanRiver Valley, the Israeli settlements, and limited lines of com... ...h state.”33 Second, the IAF action in Syria was in-tended to deter or neutralize Jordan and Iraq by demonstrating the vul­nerability of the Syrian inf... ...nology. The analysis of this war shaped the forcestructure and doctrine that the Iraqis would face 18 years later. Notes 1. Intern... ...ions, from ma­neuver warfare to siege warfare. In their defensive positions, the Iraqis didnot present lucrative target concentrations. Destroying the... ...oy troops on the move. Enemy prisoner of war accounts affirm this pro­ficiency. “Iraqis long to recognize that Coalition aircraft were targetingequipm...

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...The following chapters are independent essays written in May, June and July 2016, and they can be read in any order. The wars for the global resources of oil and natural gas are the topic of most essays. To a large extent, the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries were the resu...

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...Brad Pitt – Muslim BrotherhoodThe Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna in 1814 IntroductionThe following chapters are independ... ... IntroductionThe following chapters are independent essays written in July and August2016, and they can be read in any order.The wars for th... ...Many episodes of the energy wars of the 20th and 21st centuries aredescribed in the following essays.I.A.August. 2016. Sunni VS Shia : The Origin... ...diterranean Sea through Lebanon i.e. the trans-Arabianpipeline (Saudi Arabia-Jordan-Lebanon).That way Egypt and Syria could charge a lot more for allo... ...bia and Turkey. The Americanswould protect the Saudis from the Iranians, the Iraqis, the Syrians, theEgyptians and the Soviets, and the Saudis would s... ... terrorist attacks against theUnited States, together with the Iranians, the Iraqis, the Sudanese and withHezbollah, probably others too, even if the ... ...re a natural ally, because the Kurds have beentraditionally butchered by the Iraqis, the Turks, the Iranians and the Syrians,none of whom wants to see...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...ovska – write to:palma@unet.com.mkVisit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review":http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin... ...VII. The American HostelVIII. The Semi-failed State The War in AfghanistanI. Afghan MythsII. Pakistan’s Nice Little WarIII. ... ...us ColoniesVII. The Disunited Nations 3 The War in Iraq – Coalition BuildingI. The Economies of the Middle EastII. T... ...710people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India,Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain,Turkey and the United States.Onl... ...ne third from 2002, to 50% or so. Declineswere noted in France, Germany, and Jordan, somewhatoffset by marginal rises in China and Pakistan.Two thirds... ... by the Muslimstreet, even in "progressive" Arab countries, such asEgypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, 7Asians and Africa... ...s.The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook2001 claims that the Iraqis have awarded foreign oilcontracts worth a staggering $1.1 trillion... ...an militarypresence from increasingly hostile Saudis to soon-to-besubjugated Iraqis?But this is a tautology. If America's reliance on MiddleEastern oi... ...hough admittedly froma dismally low base.An efficient rationing system keeps Iraqis well fed at2200-2500 calories per day, according to the UN. Athriv...

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...hesis is that the Joint Force Commander (JFC) must do more than merely balance this combination as separate entities, he must employ them as coequals in mutually complementary operations....

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... August 1994 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interest ofacademic ... ...the advancement of national defense-related concepts. The views ex-pressed in this publication are those of the author and do not reflect the official... ...ance this combination as separate entities, hemust employ them as coequals in mutually complementary operations. The synergistic relationship between ... ... rows of dummy horse-lines and artificially raised clouds of dust at the Jordan valley end distracted the Turks’ attention from the stealthy conce... ...he miserable Turks, fell in the valley by which Esdraelon drained to the Jordan by Beisan. The modern motor road, the only way of escape for the T... ... the border town of Al-Khafji. Catch­ing Coalition forces by surprise, the Iraqis occupied the town. However, theCoalition ground forces quickly count... ... important for the Coalition. . . . The Pan-Arab forces had defeated the Iraqis in a pitched battle, launching a difficult night counterattack aga... ...Iraqi forces wereoften visible from the air. On the other hand, unless the Iraqis surfaced andtried to maneuver, it would be much more difficult to hi...

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...Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad needed a monster in order to keep Syria under their control, when in 2011 Turkey and Qatar used the Muslim Brotherhood to cause a regime change. It turns out that this monster was the Islamic State, which was the successor of Al-Qaeda of ...

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...sra Front may leave Qaeda to form new entity”, March2015.According to Reuters in 2015 Qatar was trying to convince al-Nusra to quitAl-Qaeda in order t... ... wants to isolate al-Nusra from Al-Qaeda, because Iran has a lot of influence in Al-Qaeda, andQatar and Iran are fighting each other in Syria. Qatar i... ...and Iranis with Assad.Iran, Sudan and Hezbollah trained Osama bin Laden‟s men in Sudan in theearly 90s. The Arabs of Al-Qaeda i.e Saudis, Egyptians, L... ... theearly 90s. The Arabs of Al-Qaeda i.e Saudis, Egyptians, Libyans, Sudanese,Iraqis etc, were giving money to Hezbollah, and Hezbollah was giving the... ...und and met Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Anbar Province in western Iraq.Zarqawi, a Jordanian by birth, had previously run a training camp for international... ...ery evening in December 1989, Huthaifa Azzam, the teenage son ofthe legendary Jordanian-Palestinian mujahideen leader Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went toth... ...Pakistan, to welcome a group of young men. All were newrecruits, largely from Jordan, and they had come to fight in a fratricidal civil war inneighbor... ... treaty in 1994; the Palestinians had signed theOslo Accords of 1993; and the Iraqis had lost the Gulf War. Unemployment was upsharply, the result of ... ..., but he only swore bayat afterall this time because of growing pressure from Iraqis who were members of al-Qaeda.And even then he signed with conditi...

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...The issue in all the essays is the connection between the energy policies of various countries, their foreign policies, and the wars that break out at various parts of the globe, since all three are closely related. I describe many eco...

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... Contents Introduction The Assassination of the Saudi King in 1975 The So Called Wars of Religion Serbia Between Russ... ...e Natural Gas Production of Iran and QatarDoes Obama Support the Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia? The Creation of Syria and Iraq From D... ...ara Terrorist Attack (February 2016)The United States has Spent 35 Billion $ in Afghanistan Saudi Arabia Faces the Arab Spring The European ... ...ISIS exportthis oil from? I guess it has to be Turkey. ISIS faces the Shiite Iraqis at thesouth, who are also oil exporters, and who are fighting the ... ...aqis at thesouth, who are also oil exporters, and who are fighting the Sunni Iraqis i.e.the ex-people of Saddam Hussein. See “Saddam Hussein: The Fath... ... the Iranian King, who was also a close American ally.The Iranians, like the Iraqis, nationalized the Western oil companies. At thetime, the Russians,... ...French. TheEnglish and the French agreed that what became Iraq and Palestine(Jordan+Israel) would be under English influence, and what became Syriaand... ...covered until 1938. The English could also export this oilthrough Palestine (Jordan+Israel) to the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover thecorridor formed by I... ...rdan+Israel) to the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover thecorridor formed by Israel+Jordan+Iraq would offer the English analternative route to India, which w...

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...ms TradeThe Agreement Between Putin and Netanyahu A New Role for Russia in Syria American and Russians in Afghanistan Introdu... ...ent essays that were written betweenJuly 2015 and February 2016. They appear in random order, and thereforethey do not have to be read in the order th... ... and thereforethey do not have to be read in the order they appear.The issue in all the essays is the connection between the energy policies ofvarious... ...st, andmost specifically the regions which today are Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan,Iraq, and a large part of Saudi Arabia too. The Ottomans were alli... ...omise that they would help them establish a Jewish state in Palestine(Israel+Jordan). That was made with a formal declaration of Great Britaini.e. the... ...n of Great Britaini.e. the Balfur Declaration. At the time Palestine (Israel+Jordan) was anunderdeveloped region with less than 1 million inhabitants.... ...en that both the Russians and the Saudis will behurt if the Iranians and the Iraqis sent their oil and gas to Europe throughSyria.The Saudis also have...

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...The 2 Faces of the Taliban The New Great Game Germany‘s Role in the Rise of Lenin and the Russian CommunismThe Afghan Oil... ...ciliation Between Turkey and Israel Viabel? Drug Trafficking and Terrorism in Latin America The World Heroin ProductionThe Terrorist Groups... ... IntroductionThe following chapters are independent essays written in June and July2016, and they can be read in any order.The wars for the ... ...ase of victory i.e. what later became Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine(Israel+Jordan), Saudi Arabia.Therefore we could say that the German “investment”... ...can be produced at very low cost and in huge quantities.The Iranians and the Iraqis also shared their common anxiety about anindependent Kurdistan. Ho... ...e Syriansfighting Iraq and for not allowing Iraq to export oil through Syria.JordanA very close ally of Saddam Hussein was Jordan. Iraq desperately ne... ...anA very close ally of Saddam Hussein was Jordan. Iraq desperately neededthe Jordanian port of Aqaba, in order to have access to the Red Sea, both toe...

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...This study seeks to answer the question, “How can airpower help resolve time-induced tensions between political and military imperatives in the conduct of modern warfare?” To answer this question, the study begins by exploring time in the theory of war with an emphasis on time as a fourth dimension that provides a distinct perspective on warfare. With concepts...

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...TRODUCTION . . . . 1 Overview . . . 1 Methodology . . . . . 2 Definitions . . . . . . 2 Limits of the Argument . . . 3 Notes . . . . . 3 2 TIME IN THE THEORY OF WAR . . . 5 War Theorists on Time . . . . 6 Characteristics of Time in War . . . 7 Physical and Psychological Aspects of Time . . . . . 8 Political and Military Dynamics of Time . . . . . . 9 Summary . ....

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...The Time Value of Military Force in Modern Warfare The Airpower Advantage WALTER D. GIVHAN,... ... March 1996 DisclaimerThe author produced this paper in a Department of Defense school environment in the interest ofacademic fr... ...d the advancement of national defense-related concepts. The viewsexpressed in this publication are those of the author and do not reflect the official... ...ude, the Israeli Air Forcesucceeded in destroying the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in shortorder, catching many of the targeted aircraft on ... ...ttles. Within three days another Israeli force secured the WestBank of the Jordan River and took the ancient city of Jerusalem. A finalIsraeli thrust ... ...worry aboutcontrolling key terrain such as the Sinai, the West Bank of the Jordan River,and the Golan Heights. The Time Problem It is w... ... in theater.20 By steadilyfortifying these troops and their equipment, the Iraqis hoped to survive anyair attack and remain ready to bleed the coaliti... ...d tension existed between political and military imperatives.25 As for the Iraqis, playing the long game was still the politically correctmove, but th...

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...ase Studies serves as a fundamental guide to PSYOP philosophy, concepts, principles, issues, and thought for both those new to, and those experienced in, the PSYOP field and PSYOP applications . This book clarifies the value of PSYOP as a cost-effective weapon and incorporates it as a psychological instrument of US military and political power, especially given our present...

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... Force Base, Alabama September 1996Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataPsychological operations : principles and case studies j... ...ISBN 1-58566-016-7 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic ... ... the advancement of national defense-related concepts . The viewsexpressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not reflect the officia... ...were specified. Because the coalition's bombingcampaign was effective, the Iraqis had needs for food, shelter,water, megical attention, and basi... ...raq was successful inrallying information officials of Palestine, Tunisia, Jordan,Yemen, Mauritania, and Sudan to issue a joint statementendorsing the... ...mes and attacks should be countered openly andvociferously. Therefore, the Iraqis collected hostile propaganda,analyzed it, developed appropriate them... ... Libyan call for an emergency Arab summit meetingresulted in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia stating theywould be unable to atte... ...racter-istics of the sender (rather than the nature of the receiver). The Iraqis selected the following four objectives for theirinitial PSYOP campai...

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...sic Primer Clayton K. S. Chun United States Air Force Academy in cooperation with Air University Press Colorado Springs, Colora... ...l Air Force Base, Alabama July 2001Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataChun, Clayton K. S. Aerospace power in the twenty-first... ...racteristics of Aerospace Power . . . . . 4 Aerospace Power in War . . . . . . . . . . . 14 What Aerospace Forces Can Accomp... ...ffensive air opera-tions during its Six-Day War against Egypt, Syria , and Jordanin June 1967. Israeli jets conducted a surprise, massive groundattack... ... 16 AEROSPACE CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONSthe Syrian and Jordanian air forces . Without air support, Arabground forces were left ope... ... In 1964 a meeting among offi-cials from the governments of Egypt, Syria , Jordan , and Leba-non ended in agreement to divert water from the Jordan Ri... ...of Iraqi forces. The UN would laterauthorize the use of force to eject the Iraqis from Kuwait . The United States responded quickly to a request by Ki... ...alued targets.Warden thought airpower alone could win the war and forcethe Iraqis out of Kuwait with minimal casualties.46 Hornerrejected War den ’s p... ...are capability. Coalition air forces were also charged witheliminating the Iraqis’ ability to conduct offensive military op -erations, as well as dest...

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...reword Contrary to initial expectations, the end of the cold warhas not resulted in a spontaneous outbreak of interna -tional peace and stability. Whi... ...onalisticrivalries have boiled over and become additive to existingtrouble spots in Korea and Southwest Asia. In spite ofthese challenges, defense spe... ...iththe uncertainty of the current volatile world by providingregional commanders in chief with effects-based packagesof airpower that can quickly resp... ...d of the cold war. Eight years after the suc -cessful allied effort to eject the Iraqis from Kuwait, Ameri -can forces find themselves still in Kuwait... ... units now have experience in deploying to,and operating from, bases in Bahrain, Jordan, and Qatar. There are two reasons for this emphasis on Southwe...

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...ruct that current doctrine is probably wrong, but what matters is the capability of the military to get it right when a particular conflict begins. In the course of this evaluation, Lt Col Aldon E. Purdham Jr. examines several important airpower factors to include familiarity with the nature and geography of the conflict; parity with the adversary, especially in term...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE KOREAN WAR, 25 JUNE–25 JULY 1950 . . . . . .5 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, 2 MARCH–1 APRIL 1965 . . . 27 Notes . . . . . . . . ....

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...red for publicrelease: distribution unlimited. This CADRE Paper and others in the series are available electronically at the Air University Research W... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE KOREAN WAR, 25 JUNE–25 JULY 1950 . . . . . . 5 ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, 2 MARCH–1 APRIL 1965 . . . . . . 27 ... ...tudies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He and hiswife, Lauralyn, have four children—Jordan, Delaney, Lindsey,and Sydney. ix Acknow... ...placed on her becauseof my long hours in the library. As for our children, Jordan,Delaney, Lindsey, and Sydney, I can only hope that my timeaway from ... ...ollows: “psychological operations teamsbroadcast surrender appeals. If the Iraqis fired on theapproaching Americans, the attackers repeated artillery,... ...rne Corps on 26 and 27February.56 The 24th Division was tasked to seal the Iraqis’escape route along the Euphrates River. One of its objectiveswas to ... ...bouttwo-thirds were located along the LOCs from Baghdad to thetheater. The Iraqis attempted to overcome destruction on theirhighway bridges with tempo...