I Disagree.
1) General Tommy Franks said in his 2004 book, American Soldier, that CENTCOM had a very active disinformation team that produced old, outdated, and mocked up data.
2) We know other nations can use commercial and government Sat images to identify our troops, so it is in our interest to provide a false narrative to the data before them.
3) Iraq was not able to use this data to effect any meaningful military counterattack. In fact, they did not display a single military significant maneuver during their pitiful defense.
1) General Tommy Franks said in his 2004 book, American Soldier, that CENTCOM had a very active disinformation team that produced old, outdated, and mocked up data.
2) We know other nations can use commercial and government Sat images to identify our troops, so it is in our interest to provide a false narrative to the data before them.
3) Iraq was not able to use this data to effect any meaningful military counterattack. In fact, they did not display a single military significant maneuver during their pitiful defense.
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Don't miss the point. Whether info was disinfo, outdated or not effectively used by Iraq is not relevant. It was obtained and passed on by the Russians. Add revelations of the "Oil for food" program and we see how Russians worked against American interest. It proves we cannot trust Russia to act any different with the developing problems with Iran.