From: Jim Gillogly <jim@ACM.ORG>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:14:51 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: New Infowarfare Panel
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>At 12:09 PM -0700 7/18/96, Mike McNally wrote:
>>My personal recollection is that many of the InfoWar techniques we crafted
>>during the Gulf War involved using high speed fighter-bomber aircraft to
>>drop guided munitions on top of selected pieces of the communications
>>infrastructure.

David Sternlight <david@sternlight.com> writes:
>I'm talking about some of the information that started slowly leaking out
>later, not the prime-time TV pyrotechnics.

Please elaborate.  Worked examples of info warfare would be useful for
us to study... making useful government policy based on unsupported
recollections and dubious anecdotes is difficult.  (I won't drag in the
more cypherpunk-related example I had in mind, for fear of derailing
this conversation from this specific topic.)

	Jim Gillogly
	Hevensday, 25 Afterlithe S.R. 1996, 23:13