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Although this report is from 1999, it should be in your
file. Stella
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Army PSYOP in Bosnia: Capabilities and
Constraints (1999)
by Major Steve Collins
Carlisle Army War College
From Parameters, Summer 1999, pp. 57-73.
"Early in the war, Serb forces made the capture of various
radio and television transmitters a high-priority military objective, seizing
control of as much of the local electronic media as possible.[15] The
Bosnian-Serb leaders tended to direct their media message toward the people of
former Yugoslavia, not internationally. Generally, they achieved the desired
effect, creating fear and paranoia among Bosnian-Serbs and channeling those
emotions into a virulent hatred of other ethnic groups, while establishing the
conviction among Bosnian-Serbs that they were struggling for their very
survival."
(As it turns out, the Serbs had every reason to be
paranoid and fearful considering the history in World War II and having lived
under the Islamic yoke for 415 years. In addition, they ARE struggling for
their very survival even today as a result of Clinton's anti-Serb foreign policy
- followed by the Bush's administration lack of understanding just what is at
stake. The Serbs were ethnically cleansed from Croatia with military
and technical advice by the guns-for-hire MPRI out of Northern
Virginia and Serbia's Jerusalem is being handed, gratis Western
policy, to Osama bin Laden's Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists.
Stella)
1. For instance, see Lieutenant Colonel John E. Sray, "Selling
the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware" (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: US Army
Foreign Military Studies Office, October 1995). http://call.army.mil/fmso/fmsopubs/issues/bosnia2.htm (Please
read this important report if you already haven't.)
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