Yesterday, China held a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of World War II, and swore high and low that it wasn’t flexing its military muscles in the process. Zhang Ming, vice minister of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a press conference last month that “if someone says this is flexing anything, it is a flexing of the…
Category: Psy-Ops
Propaganda of the Deed: How Insurgents are Seizing the Initiative
On a clear afternoon in March 2011, the relatively still air in Uruzgan’s Tarin Kot bowl was punctured by a blast wave and flame ball that rose more than 100 meters into the sky. Insurgents had concealed an improvised explosive device within a motorcycle, and infiltrated it into the logistics soak yard outside the Multi-National…