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"Shock And Awe" Is A Trademarked Military Tactic |
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by Paul Kotheimer
Email: herringb (nospam) prairienet.org (unverified!) |
30 Mar 2003
Modified: 11:22:48 PM |
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This is an indymedia expose just waiting for an investigative journalist to take it on!! |
Remember the front pages of the newspapers last Friday? They touted that the tactic the U. S. military was using over Baghdad was one of "Shock and Awe."
It turns out that this three-word phrase is not just your average piece of Pentagon propaganda. It's a TRADEMARKED "warfighting strategy" developed and marketed by a private firm called Defense Group, Incorporated (DGI).
Guess who's on the Board of Directors of DGI? Richard P. Godwin, former Vice Chairman and President of Bechtel Incorporated.
Seems like if you're looking for the answer to the question "Cui Bono?"--i.e., "Who Profits?"--when it comes to Gulf War Two, Defense Group, Incorporated, might be a place to look.
Here's how DGI describes itself at http://www.defensegroupinc.com/about.cfm:
For some background, see Washington Post's Jefferson Morley's article on the authors of the "Shock and Awe" textbook:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55823-2003Mar19.html
A copy of the textbook itself is available on microfiche at the UIUC's Government Documents Library, under the call number MFICHEDOC.D5.402:SH7
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