Belmont Club [1] is a blog I’ve linked to previously. Today they’re running a fine bit on something I’ve been watching for some time; the use of the press as a weapon. I have been of the idea for weeks that this is in fact what’s been happening in Iraq; the press is a weapon being used against us… by both the Islamofacists, and our own unwitting left. Blemont Club takes fleshes this out a bit for us;
“It was during the Vietnam War that the Left first discovered the potential war-winning ability of media coverage. The concept itself is merely an extension of the blitzkrieg notion that the enemy command structure, not his troop masses, are the true center of gravity on the battlefield. During the campaign of 1940, Heinz Guderian’s panzers bypassed many French formations, leaving them unfought, knowing that if their command structure were severed, the whole musclebound mass would fall to the ground headless. What the Left gradually discovered during the course of the Vietnam war was that Guderian had not been bold enough. Guderian still felt it necessary to win on the battlefield. He had not realized that it was possible to ignore the battlefield altogether because it was the enemy political structure, not his military capability, that was the true center of gravity of an entire campaign. It was General Giap during the Vietnam War who first planned a military operation entirely around its possible media effect. The Tet offensive was a last desperate attempt to gain the upper hand in a war he was losing.”
Read the whole thing.