A War of Propaganda Long ago in a land far away, I played in the Great Southeast Asian War Games. One of the events in which I participated was the sport of what we called “bullshit bombing,” an event dating back to World War II when British bombers dropped propaganda leaflets over German cities during the “Phoney War” before the German invasion of the Low Countries turned the war into something other than phony. (Brits also referred to the period as the “Bore War.”) We’d load a C-130 with 70-pound boxes of printed paper at our home base at Naha, Okinawa than fly across the South China Sea to Da Nang in what was then South Vietnam. We’d spend the night in a hooch then go out the next evening and drop the heavy boxes over North Vietnam. Each box was packed full of leaflets with a message written in Vietnamese. We didn’t know what was on the leaflets – our job was merely to dispense them. The leaflets were written and printed by psychological warfare experts at an Army psychological warfare unit at an Army facility a few miles from the base. We had an identical mission off the coast of North Korea but that’s another story.
A Propaganda War
A Propaganda War
A Propaganda War
A War of Propaganda Long ago in a land far away, I played in the Great Southeast Asian War Games. One of the events in which I participated was the sport of what we called “bullshit bombing,” an event dating back to World War II when British bombers dropped propaganda leaflets over German cities during the “Phoney War” before the German invasion of the Low Countries turned the war into something other than phony. (Brits also referred to the period as the “Bore War.”) We’d load a C-130 with 70-pound boxes of printed paper at our home base at Naha, Okinawa than fly across the South China Sea to Da Nang in what was then South Vietnam. We’d spend the night in a hooch then go out the next evening and drop the heavy boxes over North Vietnam. Each box was packed full of leaflets with a message written in Vietnamese. We didn’t know what was on the leaflets – our job was merely to dispense them. The leaflets were written and printed by psychological warfare experts at an Army psychological warfare unit at an Army facility a few miles from the base. We had an identical mission off the coast of North Korea but that’s another story.