In this information age, the American occupying forces in Iraq have come face to face with a terrible reality: the insurgents have become at least as savvy in conducting information warfare. In an increasingly shrinking and highly interconnected infosphere, distinctions between foreign and domestic are fast disappearing. The battle is on for the swaying of hearts and minds of the Muslim masses. Its chief focus for now is the Middle East, but Pakistan and Afghanistan are very much on the radar screen of the Pentagon. I thought this article was particularly interesting in that all of this military propaganda reminded me of how domestic political dialog has changed. Odds are even in the 'information' war |