Earlier I had sent notice of an article to my mailing list (Freematt's Alerts) titled "One object of information warfare -- or "infowar"..." the original located at <http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1c100301.html>. Then as a watched the news tonight I heard again what I've been hearing on various American media ad infinitum that the US Military had dropped 37,500 food packages along with the first wave of attacks on Afghanistan, on Sunday. Realizing that there are several million refugees in the northern areas of Afghanistan, such a small number of food packages doesn't seem really that adequate. But if you realize why the US Military would bother dropping such minuscule numbers of aid packages it only makes sense with a backdrop of PSYOPS. "We call psychological operations (PSYOPS) the ultimate weapon," said retired Col. Jim Noll, who commanded the 13th Psychological Operations Battalion in the Persian Gulf War and helped develop tactics that led to the surrender of large numbers of Iraqi troops. For example, U.S. food distribution to Afghan refugees has "far-reaching psychological impact," Noll said." My theory is that if you hear that the US is dropping food packages along with bombs it reinforces the propaganda that the US is doing this to "help" the Afghan people. It doesn't matter from a psychological operations perspective if the aid is effective but rather it only matters if the target group thinks you're helping. In this case the target audience being the Afghan refugees and the unwitting American media consumer. I'm rather disappointed but certainly not surprised that the establishment media doesn't pick up on any of this. Regards, Matt- ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************