The allies dismantled Iran’s military infrastructure, but left untouched the narrative engine designed to end wars by breaking democracies from within.
Hamas/Iran/Hezbolla could not ask for better friends than those in the media. Far more than its terror tunnels, arms, or rockets, the press has been their strongest weapon against Israel.
Interesting and unique perspective. Most Americans would see attacks on Iranian media propoganda outlets as attacks on civilians, and wouldn't recognize the military significance. Anti Trump outlets in the USA and worldwide are already going ballistic over this war, and it would expand and get worse with allegations the United States was committing war crimes.
Except that propaganda production studios are not obviously journalists - they aren’t the same as the terrorists in press jackets that Hamas use.
More importantly Iran’s behaviour and its Internet blackout would have made the sudden declaration of hundreds of dead journalists sound like a ridiculous and fabricated claim.
In the first 48 hours of the conflict the Allies struck over 3000 strategic targets… if 50 of those were propaganda production houses - they wouldn’t have been noticed by anyone, but the strategic impact of taking the enemy propagandists off the field would have been substantial.
Can we, America and Israel, take back the narrative machine and/or destroy theirs? And how do we go about doing it? And, how do we create the momentum to re-build our narrative machine and do it? I only have questions, sorry no answers. Thank you for your incisive insights. I appreciate your informative essay. Thank you for writing this article. Am Israel Chai!
This unfortunately was not considered. If you defeat the mind of your enemy with propaganda, that is a worthy weapon. We need to confront this now and take back the minds and will of America to be Great again and put that out there to everyone. It’s not enough for just our President to be saying it.
Hamas/Iran/Hezbolla could not ask for better friends than those in the media. Far more than its terror tunnels, arms, or rockets, the press has been their strongest weapon against Israel.
You think it had never been clearer that the “Jews don’t own the media”.
Interesting and unique perspective. Most Americans would see attacks on Iranian media propoganda outlets as attacks on civilians, and wouldn't recognize the military significance. Anti Trump outlets in the USA and worldwide are already going ballistic over this war, and it would expand and get worse with allegations the United States was committing war crimes.
Except that propaganda production studios are not obviously journalists - they aren’t the same as the terrorists in press jackets that Hamas use.
More importantly Iran’s behaviour and its Internet blackout would have made the sudden declaration of hundreds of dead journalists sound like a ridiculous and fabricated claim.
In the first 48 hours of the conflict the Allies struck over 3000 strategic targets… if 50 of those were propaganda production houses - they wouldn’t have been noticed by anyone, but the strategic impact of taking the enemy propagandists off the field would have been substantial.
Too bad you weren't in on the planning. Sounds fine to me.
Can we, America and Israel, take back the narrative machine and/or destroy theirs? And how do we go about doing it? And, how do we create the momentum to re-build our narrative machine and do it? I only have questions, sorry no answers. Thank you for your incisive insights. I appreciate your informative essay. Thank you for writing this article. Am Israel Chai!
This unfortunately was not considered. If you defeat the mind of your enemy with propaganda, that is a worthy weapon. We need to confront this now and take back the minds and will of America to be Great again and put that out there to everyone. It’s not enough for just our President to be saying it.