| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Second Hand |
| Date: | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:08:04 -0400 |
>Thank god there are people like you out there. Why can't I ever seem to find
>players like this?
It is basic covert/psyc war tactics. Blow something up, make it look like
someone else did it, get two of your enemies trying to kill eachother, and
sell both sides guns and intell while enjoying the floor show. This kind
of thing has been done for centuries. Read Machovelli (sp), Sun Tzu,
Clausowitz, Rommel, Patton and Napeleon for how to think "dirty".
I've got a larger example of this concept in action:
Iranian radar picks up something low over the ocean, and word comes from
the coast that it is Hinds in Iraqi colors. At the same time, some Mi-29s
and Mirage IIIs loaded with Chinese made missiles zip on across the desert,
and pop high to cover the choppers. Choppers land, drop troops in Iraqi
uniforms armed with AKs loaded with Iraqi and Jordanian ammo, RPG-7s, and
grenades, and Semtex from a lot known to have been sold to Iraq in the late
80s. They blow a powerplant, take off, hit the local defenses, and
everyone exits stage west towards Iraq.
In reality, those Hinds dropped below radar coverage and headed back to
the Liberian flagged, German crewed frieghter owned by a French company,
and hiden as deck cargo, constantly staying in sight of US and UK warships
and being inspected by those two nations, who are in on the joke. The
fixed wings dropped low and slow, and land at a US/Kuwaiti airfield where
the pilots demand "asylum" from political persecution in the US, which they
are immediately given. US and UK fighters on Southern Watch provide high
cover for everyone, and suppres the living crap out of everything except
for some things that AWACS designates as friendlies, with "gun cam" footage
being generated at some NRO facility besed off the location data from the
satellite crosslink on the AWACS and map data. The newsies never actually
see the pilots, just some men of Arab or Persian decent who are built and
dressed like pilots, we create a media blitz to back our State Department
while trying to get these mens' familys out (they actually don't exist, but
it will look like the Iraqis purged them), and the aircraft are broken down
and shipped to Wright-Pat, with the Kuwaitis being promissed a cut of the
intell take and some shiny new F-16s, more Longbow radars and a promise of
some rebuilt F-15s once we start getting Raptors.
Our special operations troopers go back to base with yet one more thing
that can never talk about, and hopefully no fatal training accidents
victems. The pilots go back to thier "Agressor" squadrons and are told to
forget, and they are mated up with thier birds in a few weeks. (We have a
number of foreign fighters and choppers, and can buy more Russian any day
we want.) The real gun camera and AWACS tapes are "accidently" destroyed
in a fire in an admin building (along with some other items of a sensative
nature). One of our few real friends in the area get some new toys. The
Iraqis look like crap and are out some air suppression gear, with the US
retaining the option of retaliatory Tomahawk strikes if the president has
made another "oops". The Iranians are pissed at the Iraqis and we may be
able to get a more secular, Western-friendly government into Tehran (who we
may be able to convice that "tech support" for other people's WMD programs
is a bad idea). And the media gets to complain about some shiney new
$30,000 toilet seats, with most of that money going to fund this operation.
The only thing that they don't mention in Wag the Dog is that when this
game is played for real, people die from design. Not irate farmers in a
largely random situation.
>Whoever's player--or GM--IronRaven is, do me a favor and FedEx him to us
I don't travel well, and I would have a hazardous materials rating, just
like any other form of explosives.
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."
