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Re: FUCK!!!!!!;-) The Book
A new book, "Digital Soldiers," by James F. Dunnigan,
emphasizes that information warfare -- deceiving the
enemy -- is as old as war, and that the PR-driven media
today work closely with the warfighting industry to
protect their mutually lucrative markets.
The latest GAK PR campaign fits this.
Dunnigan also makes hash of the recent opportunistic
"infowar" PR, along with adept grinding of the vast,
corrupt high-tech defense industry worldwide, led by the
US war-prognosticating PR-media-policy lizards. As he
says, bad news is always good news for the Hearsts and
Rasputins (Responsible Personages), for the liars of
brimstone religion, for all the terrifying doomsayers
peddling trust-my-god: me, now tithe or be taxed.
Dunnigan's sermon: stop the pork, then there will be
plenty of resources to deal with the rest of society's
ills. Otherwise, peace, real or vitural, is war,
sustained barbarity camouflaged by self-interested
civility -- the peacefighting, ticket-punching officer,
er, journalist, class.
Digital Soldiers
The Evolution of High-Tech Weaponry and Tomorrow's Brave
New Battlefield
James F. Dunnigan
St. Martin's Press, New York; $25.95
ISBN 0-312-14588-8