Sunday, February 27, 2011

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Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War

multiple fought in the history of volunteers in the face or for a clear military defeat on, rather than to lay down their weapons. The assessment of these organizations is complicated not only by propaganda of the enemy, but also because classification of operations and counter operations. In a four-part series, we are guerrilla activities in the Civil War, the Ukrainian and consider Baltic resistance in the 50 years and the werewolf organization in 1945 and the Stay-behind plan to 1989.
1864 begins, the military end of the chronically under-served and under-funded South, the Confederate States of America, to emerge. The CSA staff have been bled dry, internationally after the proclamation of Lincoln's slavery isolated and economically ruined. Occupying forces from the northern States, through harassment of Confederate civilians, and destruction of crops and killing of cattle is helping to stir up hatred. Is notorious bully as Northern States-General David Hunter, whose forces the people in the Shenandoah Valley. The Southern States have any more than the North, the guerrilla war organized systematically and comprehensively. Although the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862 regulated the possibility of irregular units set up to fight, but this law was in February 1864 - partly because of pressure from the regular army leadership - withdrawn.

Richard Anderson and others beginning of the guerrilla war
begin in late 1864 in the northern occupied territory of the South guerrilla actions. For example, access on 27/09/1864 30 of 225 guerrillas of "Bloody Bill" aka "Fighting Dick" Richard Heron Anderson (born 1821 Sumter City, Virginia, died 1879) in the town of Centralia Of Missouri, looted and abide by the railroad. 25 Union soldiers are killed. At the end of the day 160 inexperienced soldiers of the Union under the leadership of a major hit in Centralia and fall into an ambush in which 116 men are killed. Anderson is fighting with his men just as successful in conventional combat, and finally drops at 26.10. 1864 as leader of a regular cavalry unit under General Sterling "Old Pap" Price in an ambush.
In the surrounding area of the Appalachian mountains does John Hunt Morgan to transport routes and binds the Union forces of the North, which must be parked as a transportation guide and protect the railway lines.
On 19 October 1864 penetrate a 30 Southerners, under Lieutenant Bennett H. Young of neutral from Canada, Vermont, and attacked the town of St. Albans the banks. Their prey is $ 200,000.

RH Anderson

John Singleton Mosby
Former Attorney " Grey Ghost, "Colonel John Singleton Mosby (born 1833 in Edgremonton, Virginia, after the war, U.S. consul in Hong Kong, died 1916), was a former scout for the Confederate cavalry legend Jeb Stuart and struggled with his" Partisan Rangers, "which over 43 . Virginia Cavalry in western Virginia in small groups before 21 April 1864 the arms stretched out - after General Lee and to the disapproval of other guerrilla resistance.

JS Mosby
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William Clark Quantrill
known was William Clark Quantrill (born 1837 in Canal Dover, Ohio, died in 1865 at the military prison at Louisville), under its command, the brothers Frank and Jesse James and Cole Younger rode (the future James Gang) and fought in Kansas and Missouri. Quantrill is fighting not only his own guerrilla war, but in December 1862 as part of a major operation under General Thomas C. Hindmann on the outskirts of Fayetteville. In the battle of Prairie Grove are each about 10,000 Confederate and Union soldiers against. The Union troops eventually withdraw after Quantrill and other soldiers have destroyed their vanguard. After desertion of a new Confederate regiment from Arkansas, the Southerners have, however, solve the following night but by the enemy. Both sides each lost about 1,300 men was notorious Quantrill when he comes over with his men in the town of Lawrence Kansas and 160 men, women and children are killed. However, it must be noted to the fact that Union soldiers previously uninvolved relatives of Quantrill and his men have been captured and interned. With the collapse of a building in Kansas City, under circumstances not completely clarified, some of these detainees are being killed. Quantrill men promise to take revenge. In return for the massacre of the north turn Quantrill has 19 000 innocent civilians in the communities adjacent to Kansas from Missouri. Also is often mentioned that northerners and their sympathizers in the area of activity precedence over Quantrill similar. These include, for example, Charles Jennison "Jayhawkers and George Hoyt" Red Legs ". Quantrill was on 10 May 1865 and had fought to a month longer than Mosby.
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WC Quantrill

The Confederate Navy
Although the Confederate Navy no guerrilla operations carried out in the real sense, are among their activities, some legendary raids, reminiscent of some operations of German ships such as the German Emden in World War II. Sun brought the CSS "Alabama" in 22 months, 64 ships of the merchant fleet of the Union before it finally sunk off Cherbourg, France to repair a stay of the corvette USS Kearsarge is. Similarly successful was the blockade runner CSS Tallahassee, in 1864 in three weeks, 31 vessels sank the Union. One of the last units that catches the flag, is also a Confederate ship, the CSS Shenandoah on 4 Nov 1865 in Liverpool. At that time she has made without knowledge of the political and military circumstances under Captain James I. Waddell, another successful raids in the Bering Sea in June behind them, and thus the last shots of that war. The surrender and the return of most of the Prisoners of war, however, is also back several months.

CSS Alabama (right) takes the ship Union
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guerrillas of the north
The north was however less on guerrilla warfare and had to because of its enormous human and material superiority also little reason - other than fanatics like the mentioned "Jayhawkers" or "Red Legs," whose approach is less military operations, rather than terrorist action against pro-Confederate civilians was similar. Systematic destruction of infrastructure on a large scale could make Union troops readily because of their military superiority open. In addition, the North is also the most modern cities with artillery against civilian population one, for example, against Atlanta in 1864, and kills therefore not involved (before the population is called upon by the attackers of the Union to leave within ten days the city and the city finally to Union General Sherman is completely destroyed after their occupation in order to weaken the South . Sherman destroyed and laid waste to his march whole areas, confiscated not only food but also assets and tolerated behind him pulling criminals and deserters from both armies engage in identity the remains. One of the few guerrillas in the employ of the North, James J. Andrews, who in 1862 abducted include a Confederate train. When the plan fails, Confederate pursuers by stop burning of railroad bridges, Andrews fled on foot with his 21 men. He and seven of his men were captured and executed.
translated commands the northern states, not only to follow Confederate guerrillas, but also allowed the persecution and deportation of supporters (eg Union's General Order 10 and 11 August 1863).

chaos in the last days of the South
On 9 August 1864 a smuggled bomb explodes at the Union headquarters of General Grant, killing 43 people and injured more 125th Grant remains intact.
On 25 and 26 November 1864 fire in New York agent of the South 10 hotels, Barnum's Museum, and try to blow up ships in the harbor.
On 3 April 1865 is Richmond, and CSA President Jeff Davies is evacuated.
On 9 April Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia (27,000 men) before Appomatox Court House. It further CSA troops remain in the field.
On 14 April, Lincoln was shot by an assassin and falls on 15 his injuries. Andrew Jackson is sworn in as president.
to CSA President Davis, a bounty will be suspended. On 10 May he be captured. On the same day is the Confederate guerrilla leader William C. Quantrill. Davis will be chained in prison temporarily.
On 2 June is E. Kirby Smith was the last commander of the South. Colonel Joseph O. Shelby from Lexington, Kentucky refused to surrender and settles with about 1,000 soldiers to Mexico.

Literatur und Verweise
- Ian F.W. Beckett: Guerilla Warfare. New York 1999.
- Michael Fellmann: Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War. New York 1989.
- V.C. Jones: Grey Ghosts and Rebel Raiders. New York 1956.
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Friday, February 25, 2011

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Hovawart - keeping, rearing and education - Breed

occupied for many years, I am with the education of hovawarts and other races in my dog school. Even the puppy can quickly learn everything you need for your home and everyday life. puppy school

But even adults who may have problems, can be brought up to. This has been my decades of experience and over again. dog school .
The Hovawart
needs guidance and normal employment, especially people in his family that he can respect as the "lead dog". Therefore, he needs people who do something with it and prevail with him can. The Hovawart is not an "everyman's dog," but must be educated with patience, determination and a lot of attention. He is also sensitive to its people and an extremely affectionate partner and Familienhund.Für beginners is the only suitable Hovawart. These must be supplied by the listed leadership qualities and adapt to their Hovawart can.

Education: The Hovawart is often very strong-willed and dominant. With perseverance and determination of youth he can still be brought up to a excellent companion. The much vaunted independence and late maturity but you need a special training time and more patience. Hovawarte be used as successfully as therapy - and rescue dogs.

particularly in the track work is the Hovawart tip. Prey drive is also available, so that some Hovawart - unfortunately - operated very much like a hunter. It should set clear limits on his good upbringing. For its valuable, special assessments and properties of the Hovawart is a confident, Movement and eager to work and often independently acting individual.


Experienced Dog School for the Hovawart .....


Resources: The Hovawart is a reserved, but friendly family dog that protects inherently reliable. He needs close contact with his people, is adorable, very affectionate and loyal.

He is confident, self-willed, alert and fearless. Despite the very distinct characteristics, our guard dogs Hovawarte were our guests in our presence to be friendly.

The Hovawart is out lively and cheerful, calm and balanced in the house. Basically it is benign and very curious.

health and life expectancy: The Hovawart is a healthy breed for decades because of the existing strict breeding regulations. Thus, the Hovawart is one of the races with the best HD value überhaupt.Die life expectancy is relatively high. Some Hovawarte were aged up to 17 years and even in old age have yet to meet any challenge.

The pictures show our sons and daughters of Jambo Wittler dam and from the family of former breeders VDH-breeding "of de Reezegeischder" with Moira Mhian Quellenhof. Some of the shown dogs themselves and their relatives may already excellent performance in the dog / recreational sports and as a therapy dog show. More will follow. To












Sunday, February 20, 2011

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Open letter to the "Advocacy Alliance Winnenden"


Ladies and Gentlemen,
the founder of your organization have lost through the madness of a criminal their families. We know that the loss of a loved one, especially one's own child is the worst that can befall a man. We understand the grief, despair and anger arises from it. We understand that this situation might lead to a fundamental reassessment of their own lives and create a wish can do something about it that does not repeat such things in order.

is morally responsible for the acts of the perpetrators . Morally responsible in a way, is also the home of the offender, the extreme situation in which the offender must have been had, has not interpreted correctly. This concerns especially the father who did not take his gun so placed, as was required by law. We feel, however, with this family, compassion, has not only lost a son and brother, but also a livelihood and in some ways has a future - such as the sister of the offender. These people are victims.

What factors outside the family home , Helped eg in school to ensure that the offender has taken this fateful development - from possible harassment by classmates of the victim up to the possible failure of a reasonable assessment of his educational school social behavior - we do not know.

The legal responsibility of the offender can not be worked up specifically because of his death. The legal responsibility of the father finds a decent German court and, as we hope, on the basis of objective and impartial perspective on the basis of our laws. law in Germany is not the media, the "public Opinion, "the victims or relatives of the victims or any pressure groups said. We therefore accept no revenge threats against the family of the perpetrator, nor public condemnations of the father or even claims to the courts with regard to a subjective as to be fair or too low perceived punishment. On the contrary, such activities are appropriate in our opinion to prevent justice. For the purposes of Christian doctrine we would - welcome, if the thought of forgiveness, of compassion against an equally hard-hit family came into its own - especially if you organize as a church foundation.

In this case, the offender has made use of a firearm. With school shootings and other crimes with multiple victims in the past and present including commercial or home-made explosives, fire accelerants, or even flame throwers, cutting and stabbing weapons, military weapons and other equipment were used to kill the victim or to injure. the brains of criminals have devised numerous ways with many different objects in order to attack their victims .

Yet you say that legal firearms are an essential factor for such deeds. For suicides and personal relationships, the representative of your organization than happy to give further evidence of the danger of legal weapons, are also any type of weapon was used or violence (eg including physical violence), to sacrifice or kill yourself or injure you. Scientific studies suggest here a different but very clear: No matter whether kill and what weapons are available, suicide and relationship killer, because they want to kill , not because a gun is there. Frankly, we feel it is not only improper, but even as reprehensible to despite often uncertain facts and given the underlying human tragedies the occasion of medial accompanied homicide to have your say - such as in Lörrach an obviously distraught mother suffocated her son and later with a small caliber weapon to be fired - cheap and just deeds as evidence of their own demands for a firearms ban, this absurd this parallels are also (Spare us, you deal using this sad case of a child killing that guns obviously did not do are crucial). What must be nationals of the woman, her husband and the little boys think that the loss of their loved ones as a result may well feel exploited? Honestly, this act was for us a Turning point in the assessment of your doing.

Finally, almost daily illegal weapons used to kill people or commit other crimes, sometimes in the street. Crimes of illicit weapons as opposed to hunting, sporting and collectors weapons, the only purpose of the acquisition. to illegal weapons and even spectacular homicides we hear nothing of the "Alliance" - why ?

violence but can not be on weapons, whether legal or illegal, whatever the underlying technology, reduce. Especially in connection with Young people is, first, the phenomenon of violence in schools everyday significance of which is manifested in exclusion, discrimination, harassment and even physical violence against students and teachers. Second, the violence in public places is mentioned, which is aimed at pedestrians, bus and train drivers or police officers - most of it comes from young people. In both cases, the media and the public interest only for outstanding deeds, such as the killing Dominik Brunner, though this form of violence total of more deaths and far more traumatized and injured people caused when school shootings . The many others in the Coma beaten, stabbed, beaten and robbed victims hardly interest anyone. It may be that you are also expressed the idea, but why we hear nothing of the "Alliance" to the everyday violence ? We even believe that the focus on the rare school shootings contributes to other phenomena of violence can not properly appreciate, and therefore harmful.

We hear the mantra of "Alliance" that guns - often concretized as a "large caliber" firearms, as there were no deaths caused by small caliber firearms - citizens should not stand for sports, hunting and gathering or Customs available. We hear that there was shooting and shooting large-caliber not a sport. It is surprising you do not that two and a half million innocent citizens in numerous shooting clubs and shooting a lot of fun in a sport that does not exist? Why people do not fully understand a hand in the "Alliance" that for two and a half million citizens shooting - and specifically large caliber and shooting - sports, no matter how you personally rate this ideological ?

At this point we do not want the social, unifying, inclusive and social benefits of the sport speak - also for young people. We do not speak of how it is in the club Saturday morning when the sanitation workers standing next to the academics and the craftsman and all three have after a hard week at work enjoy a peaceful competition for the highest score. Regardless of the way, whether male or female, young or old, whether parents or single. We meet just as colorful mixed there and nowhere else, because we all are interested just for the sport of shooting. We are therefore potential killers, "ratchet fools," "weapons fetishists" or abnormal in any other way? No, the are not we. We are the center of this society .

But it is obvious that the destruction of this heritage shooting sports clubs with the worst to hear what you can do to this society. And we can not imagine who should have the right to destroy that many people in their community.

We hear how the "Alliance" gives its views on issues of homeland security and on amendments to the Firearms Act - even written letters to the politicians to make demands. Sure, everyone can have his opinion, and everyone can also try sending time or a few to get hold of lines in the media to express it. But more than your opinion you do not represent . You should accept that. Solo your capacity as a victim does not enable you to qualify for legal weapons or hazardous nature of firearms express . Burglary victim advised not to laws against burglary. Theft victims do not demand stricter punishment for thieves. And certainly not in Parliament or on television. We believe that you need to learn that you speak for no one and nothing else than for himself, and that their opinion is no more than an opinion . There must be not only different opinions, but any halfway decent discussion partners must deal with his opposite number and content (not moral) in this light. We would appreciate it very much if it were a discussion of the weapons law more objective and would be conducted based on more facts and less ideology. We know from other countries, such as the United States or Great Britain, and from scientific studies to play Legal weapons no relevant role crime.

We have read with amazement that the "Alliance" is accused in connection with the manufacturer of a biometric security system to stand . We have also read amazed that you can not express it. We have read that the Action Alliance for individuals in the place of the actual work is entered and now "feeds his man." We do not know if it's true all of this. However, we believe that you, if it is true, have lost their moral credit . If it is not true and you also notice this is not clear, you also lose your moral credit. We think you are in your remaining sponsors and donors guilty. And you are guilty of this also the public, where you are constantly to have your say, even though we so useful in most cases little . Keep

We have read the is a credibility in connection with this video game collection in Stuttgart. Video games do not interest us much. We do not think that they represent a particularly meaningful leisure activity. But we are interested even if you try the success of this campaign the media portray different than he was. If it was so that the success of this action should have been misrepresented, in fact, further doubt on the credibility of your statements are attached.

As we noted above, we feel for the families of the victims and understand your situation. But we understand and approve of what role you right into the arms debate in Germany play . From our perspective, your positions are not only unhelpful, but for us too often undermine evidence-based fact-finding. We would therefore recognize - recognize human also, and especially in the light of the loss of relatives - and welcome, if you the occasion of that funding and credibility you would have so consistently and your organization disbanded . Organizations such as the "White Ring" or violence prevention projects (eg in schools) would certainly experienced and committed combatants happy - and your money. Maybe we'll meet there, yes.

With best regards,
Beate Meier-Kuehne
the editorial team of the net hunting guns

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Dog school: education for the Hovawart

Based on our many years of experience in the rearing and education of the Hovawart we present here by popular demand our dog school concept even more precisely

addition to help with everyday problems typical of this training includes the following benefits:

- Your dog will quickly get used to his new family pack
- social structures for your dog with useful rules and rituals
- Avoid unconscious behavioral factors as the most common causes of educational problems in dogs
- Enhancing the social bond between you and the dog
- clear communication a good operator-dog relationship
- a four-legged companion, the typical, everyday situations familiar and tolerated
- a training program that encourages your dog even in old age and calls

the beginning of each course gets the dog the opportunity to build up the bond to you. The right communication and their handling of the dog at home and outside are crucial. The dog will learn that it is best to stay calm and be next to you. Instead treats your social skills, the actual guidance for your dog (social praise) is. The goal is that you are important for your dog than any other distractions (cyclists, joggers, other dogs, etc.).

this means for you but also to work intensively with you to check your use of the dog self-critical and to avoid mistakes forever. This is also the other family members do not always easy. But I'll explain everything carefully and support you.

The contact my other dogs is a central theme of the individual training. We jointly examine your dog for Hovwart colleagues are actually correct and what is not. It depends on the character of your dog but also of its development, because the dogs remain colleagues of today is not necessarily forever.

The common "homework" are important not only for the education of the dog, but to get to know you for the opportunity to conduct basic and ritualize with your dog.

If the dog is a good "listener" has become far and leash, we begin to work out specific behavior that is particularly for use in everyday life. Here, the dog learns to execute your instructions, without "giving any thought whatsoever." Your dog will learn all major exercises such as walking on a loose leash, and the "by-fro" if it could be even close, exciting or dangerous. The relaxed and reliable return from remaining on call are important etiquette to help avoid the stress and prevent hazards.

This will take your dog as a sociable family dog in your life and can be taken anywhere. Timid dogs become more confident, dominant dogs are more yielding, balanced nervous dogs, etc.

The group training deepens and completes the previously learned yet and see. Since all the participants have previously successfully completed one training here can sophisticated and realistic exercises, and prepare the dog to difficult life situations very well.

Hovawart family and are welcome. The group training takes place on Sunday, will take even 90 minutes and has a limited number of participants.

noted that most participants do not need more than 2 - 3 months-one training, then to participate in such a group training, as I offer it to successfully to. Also Hovawart Finley, the first 16 months for the first time attended a dog school was quickly very good progress


In the subsequent group training won Finley more confidence in the word of his owner and also mastered difficult life simulation without error:



Are you interested in my "dog owners school know? Call me. I like to take the time for a personal interview.

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The Iraq War in 2003 in the Media Action Alliance


The western media and the U.S. military had both learned from the first Gulf War in 1991. A better coverage of the Iraq war in 2003 has there not been the same. On the one hand, there were in German radio broadcasts and newspaper articles, numerous references to the influence of propaganda and censorship of the warring parties. On the other hand tried to coalition forces show no longer in the first Iraq war or the Kosovo conflict primarily with satellite imagery successes. So tired but the learning effects of media and military.

Embedded journalists
Coalition forces were about 500 of them known embedded journalists ("embedded") into the armed forces report that is permanently and directly support a particular unit. This reporting was subject to the restriction to give any information which - such as accurate location information - could be dangerous for the troops and set when in "real time" took place on the videophone instead of television cameras and broadcast on satellite channels, but it had losses of sound and image quality . The flood of images, which was the result, meant that about 1.5 million viewers have watched in Germany, as the attack began on Iraq.
In this conflict there were several live reports of fighting. For example, could a few days later, the viewers of CNN, Euro News, n-tv, the Belgian RTBF television stations and other parts of the 7th Cavalry Brigade in the local struggle to see in Umm Qasr.

disappears, the distance of coverage?

More viewers could not get by. They had the embedded journalists than the impression that the could have involved soldiers themselves, often uncritical and full of personal opinion and personal experience, not an overview of the battle. "I have a gigantic march of steel see through the Iraqi desert," announced as the CNN reporter Walter Rodgers down by a tank. He threw all his integrity as a reporter on the Iraqi regime in the balance, he said, when he was asked about the denial of the first territorial gains by the Iraqis. But he could not tell more than he was at an advance of a tank unit somewhere in southern Iraq while (FAZ, 22.3.2003, "These pictures are real).
When the Iraq's administration and military organization after three weeks collapsed war, staged the U.S. troops in Baghdad, a media event of the first order: met U.S. tanks in the center to a prestigious place with Saddam Hussein's statue and opposite the Hotel "Palestine" before, in where many Western journalists were staying. Simple could not drive up in front of the cameras of the world media. In the square, the statue was later overturned and the hotel searched U.S. soldiers - all with live broadcast to 16 clock time in Central Europe. Better you could not prove the disintegration of the Iraqi power structures in the world in the image and corresponding covers to almost all European Newspapers the following day to create. The Americans ran in only one direction error as a soldier of the statue, the first U.S. flag umhängte which was then quickly replaced by the Iraqi flag. At the very first action saw after the occupation and for liberation from.

lack of know-how of journalists
The media used military experts in the home because of their editorial skills, but usually had no insight into the conflict and could rely only on censored TV pictures. The local journalists on the other hand knew the conflict first hand, but could not vote as much information and processes critical because their background knowledge was missing. At this point, would both have to be connected, the background knowledge and the impression on the ground. This was omitted in most cases. This ultimately means that the competence of journalists to report on crises and war, must be questioned. But the history of uranium (and armor piercing) ammunition was once in the first Gulf War, the second after the Bosnian conflict and in this war in Iraq again reported - the collective memory of the journalists was short enough that the phenomenon to forget.

familiar ritual with little information value

more points of interest in reporting point in similar directions: On 26.03.2003 German and other TV stations had reported, for example, there are over 100 armored vehicles of the Iraqi people on the march from Basra to Fao not yet occupied, already ruled out coalition forces. In addition, other reports said there were around 1,000 vehicles on the road from Baghdad to the positions of the coalition forces. These large and multiple troop movements were reported in the following days, but just not mentioned. Anyone who has ever seen a single tank company on the march know, but how little 100 or several hundred armored vehicles disappear easily. Either the first reports were false reports or Transmitter had simply lost track of these associations or the Iraqis were now overflowed or been destroyed and it should not or could not be reported. The silence on this several times announced march remains incomprehensible anyway. The audience had expected heavy fighting, which then simply stayed away.

"Shock and awe"

on the assessment of the success of the war was for the coalition forces are no longer within reach, because the advance faltered, but not only journalists, but U.S. officials were to blame. For example, Pentagon adviser Perle claimed even on 11.7.2002, the Iraqi military would collapse "after the first hint of powder." Defense Secretary Rumsfeld declared war doubted six weeks, Vice President Cheney, it will go quickly, "somewhat in weeks than months." End of March but accumulated by the same U.S. politicians statements, the conquest of Iraq will take longer and be more difficult. The proportion of Americans who believed that the Iraq war would last several months was a survey by the Washington Post a few days from about 40 to about 50 percent. This change of mind of the politicians had apparently forgotten that the advance took place in three weeks, in fact, very fast and many important war aims were achieved: the collapse of the Iraqi military, to prevent the shelling of Israel, to prevent a Turkish intervention in northern Iraq, the prevention the systematic use of weapons of mass destruction.

Even more amazing was that the relatively low number of casualties among coalition troops was not appreciated in the media. But even the little know-how of journalists should be responsible. Oversight has been consistent, that would in principle lossy local struggle not only in Baghdad but, for example in Umm Qasr, Basra and Karbala can be held extensive and covers fighting enemy frequently throughout the vast supply lines between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad could strike. Moreover, not only were experiences from the Second World War forgotten (alone in the final battle for Berlin, the Russian attackers lost about 800 tanks, over 100,000 civilians have been killed), but also from Mogadishu in Somalia (1993) or Grozny in Chechnya (1990), where they could prevail neither Americans nor Russians militarily much weaker opponents.

And even more amazing was the fact in reporting under completely that in Baghdad, not just day-long Heavy fighting house by house and street and road was, but the vast majority of soldiers and police officers throughout just went out their uniforms and went home. They were during the invasion of Americans simply disappeared as if by agreement, without which was assessed by the media for the least strange. The comparison with the Allied victory over Germany in 1945, drawn by many media forbade accordingly by itself, for up to 8 May 1945 was been fought in Germany - including offensive action, such as the Germans in the Ardennes offensive - and only the Americans had more than 400,000 deaths. Until 21 Of the war in Iraq, coalition forces had caused about 150 deaths and missing persons.

Stealth bomber or ghosts?

CNN against El Jazeera
Founded in 1996, Arab channels Al-Jazeera ("The Island") with an audience of around 35 million viewers in the Arab world and based in the emirate of Qatar (as the U.S. Central Command General Franks) and was financially dependent of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani - the first time in this conflict - at 23.3. not only images of dead U.S. soldiers, but U.S. soldiers caught in a kind of examination that should include mention their name, unit, and the reason of their deployment in Iraq. U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said on who shows images of abused prisoners, make themselves complicit. Al-Jazeera had been the video messages from Osama bin Laden aired and was therefore already been judged in the Pentagon critical. In the Iraq conflict, the U.S. television broadcasters, were largely to Rumsfeld's recommendation not to show the images of prisoners of war. They appeared only as a still image. The U.S. media in this case exercised self-censorship. On the other hand, several Iraqi dead were shown on television.
benefited more, as the Fox News, CNN Conflict: saw in the first week of the war, only about 3.2 million Americans, CNN, 3.6 million, however, Fox News, reported much less critical of the U.S. campaign and even the Pentagon's slogan "Operation Iraqi Freedom" adopted as the report title had. For Fox reported including Oliver North, the protagonist of the Iran-Contra affair, and Geraldo Rivera, who was already in the Afghanistan war struck by dubious statements and now made by the Pentagon of the operational area was because he was in a live report of U.S. positions in the sand and so betrayed worldwide (Der Spiegel 15/2003, war in Iraq. subtle can only confuse). Al-Jazeera, however, could not recover despite intensive coverage in 2003 in the black. The station was previously funded by Qatar - after the British magazine The Economist because of its political, ie liberal leanings - in spite of many fantastic reports (eg, the exclusive broadcast of Osama bin Laden video tape) not nearly enough to win advertisers. Al-Jazeera in the Iraq war but also sold pictures to CNN, Fox and others (The Economist, 21.6.2003, All that Jazeera. Television in the Arab world).
El Jazeera introduced its live coverage Baghdad on 3.4. one, as was not only shown a correspondent in the city, but also a second of professional conduct was prohibited. At this point were similar El Jazeera and CNN correspondents of the two broadcasters had been expelled.
In reporting conflict between CNN and Al-Jazeera also attacked U.S. hackers: They had linked the website of Al-Jazeera and links to a U.S. flag and pornographic content and the message "God bless our troops leave. Similar Hacker attacks had been recorded, especially since the broadcast of images of U.S. prisoners of war on Al-Jazeera.
"directed error

addition to Al-Jazeera and CNN, but there was also the Iraqi state television El Shabab as a source of information from first Hand. The impression of the growing paralysis of public life could not prevent this state broadcaster. In addition to volunteers from other Arab countries who wanted to fight alongside the Iraqis, and photographs of Saddam Hussein was clearly shown, especially soldiers and official speeches.
Israel was with decreasing likelihood of Iraqi missile attacks from the attention of the media. Most foreign journalists had left in early April already. The Israelis themselves were in English only media available, the more likely from the U.S. perspective reported (Fox, CNN and Sky). The BBC has been arrested for alleged lack of demand from the program. The Handelsblatt suggested, however, - like media critical Israelis - that the depletion of the TV range for alleged israel critical reporting of the BBC was deliberately accepted (Handelsblatt, 4.4.2003, Critical notes undesirable).
Why censor?
crisis and war reporting are not independent phenomena, but the one by the media system, for other military and political influence. A significant factor in the reporting is and remains the censorship. The measures of negative or direct censorship aimed essentially at giving the media to withhold information. This happens for example through the control and selection of image and audio material from journalists by military censors or imposition of blackouts or retention of individual information. An influence of public opinion is thus hardly possible and this method can also display the opposite effect, as the attack Israeli soldiers in April 2001 pointed to journalists who wanted to accompany the mission of U.S. mediator Anthony Zinni, the soldiers fired on their armored vehicles in front of the cameras not only with tear gas, but also with live ammunition. To meet the information needs of readers and viewers and to legitimize their own activities, is generally assumed that in the media - it is called the communication scientist Siegfried Weischenberg - recourse "ritualized" reporting forms, such as the use of experts, the information-free switching between live and studio Correspondent, be the citing of official communiqués, as well as conjecture and speculation, illustrated with archival images or computer simulations.
The measures of positive or indirect censorship aimed directly at influencing the public opinion from. This includes the provision of visual material including the military and the launch of only selected or falsified information. Falsified information in the first Gulf war goes as the alleged murder of babies in Kuwait and the photography of the execution of Kuwaiti civilians (Iraqi looters in fact) to the amount of so-called smart bombs, as JR MacArthur says. How about, for example, by claiming the U.S. government that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, acts which constituted the principal reason for war, you will be able to judge only after a further examination of the situation in Iraq. Of these weapons months after the U.S. victory, however, neither the former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, yet convinced the opposition Democrats in the U.S.: While Blix said in June 2003, the prospects for such weapons finds would fade more and more demanding the Democrats, a parliamentary investigation into alleged war lies ( Financial Times Germany, 06.12.2003 Blix scolded the "bastards" in the Pentagon). There are interactions between the two forms of censorship, for example, is favored by scarcity of information (direct censorship) to exercise military image and sound material (indirect censorship).

protest against censorship
The European Broadcasting Union has protested against British and American restrictions on reporting. The military of both countries have expelled several independent journalists from different countries were forcibly removed from areas in southern Iraq. It was created an unequal system, said the merger of public and private television stations: embedded journalists, then journalists from countries of the coalition and last independent rapporteur, "to be deterred from even in the proximity of the events to come" (www.n -tv.de, 04/03/2003) U.S. and British military spokesman said to know nothing of these events and noted the alleged threat to independent journalists, a popular base, areas of coverage block - from Chechnya to Zaire. The disadvantage of journalists from countries that the war was negative face, confirmed by individual correspondents. Finally, the Kuwaiti Army was tasked with the 240-kilometer border with Iraq to block non-authorized correspondents. wanted
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The "heavy fighting" the reporter and the "brutal street fighting" (www.n-tv.de, 1.4.2003) the British military spokesman in Basra demanded as on 1.4. a death in the coalition forces. Under brutal street fighting of the audience sees for pictures from Grozny in Chechnya or the battle of German cities during World War II from Konigsberg to Berlin, several hundred thousand deaths that are caused by contemporaneous programs in memory, other casualties.
Allied and Iraqi communications
The United States made use of some relatively easily recognizable actions, such as the claim that the Iraqi Vice President Aziz had fled. As the only Christian in the Iraqi government, he could be described as the most credible defector to design the image in the first hours of panic and desertion in the Iraqi army and leadership to this possible at all. From the British Guardian up to mirror online Western media reported the escape and details (for example, he was of Kurds in northern Iraq have been made) and sat on the misinformation. Aziz was then one who in Iraq TV turn on a propaganda campaign took part, as he claimed all credibility, a U.S. helicopter was shot down by a farmer with a gun.
How little you could also allied reports believe was also clear pictures, which had been approved by the censors themselves. So were at 21.3. was allegedly the site of Umm Qasr and Fao Peninsula occupied. Nevertheless, there were two days later image reports of intense fighting on the very these points. It was not, however, reported that the place had changed ownership.
Western Channel brought pictures of a manageable quantity of Iraqi prisoners of war who were guarded by Americans . Doubts as to the repeatedly by the U.S. side expressed numbers of captured Iraqis countered U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld with the statement that you are aware of show no prisoners on television, as it had been banned by the Geneva Conventions (www.n-tv.de, 23.3 .2003). Whether Iraqi war prisoners are shown at prayer or American to be interviewed on camera what they have intended in Iraq is therefore not a principle, but only one of degree.
In assessment of the U.S. communications must also be considered that this began not only at the beginning of hostilities in order to influence world opinion - Just like the Iraqi action. Although the U.S. had the controversial project of the "Office of Strategic Influence" to disseminate targeted (dis) information completed abroad, active measures with the purpose of influencing public opinion in key countries, however, were not so complete. The U.S. Secretary of State Charlotte Beers (Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs) is a dedicated marketing specialist (including Ogilvy & Mather and J. Walter Thompson) was not only television commercials (for American Muslims reported it as their life in the U.S.) but also brochures ("Iraq: From Fear to Freedom" with terror, poison gas attacks and mass destruction weapons on one side and freedom on the other side), and media appearances (eg Secretary of State Colin Powell in a discussion with young people in the music channel MTV).
In March / April 2002, an article in U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs, entitled "Beyond Public Diplomacy warned that the U.S. would lose the war for the hearts and minds of the people in the Muslim world, even though they were" legions of spokspersons on the airwaves at home and abroad "to use. They contend that not only Osama bin Laden, offering a regular video and audio tapes responsible, but the state media in the regimes in the Middle East. Washington should therefore concentrate more intent to install a free media in these countries.
That the communication was successful you can see as after the announcement of some dramatic counterfeiting and government crises in the UK and the U.S.. The traditional and critical incorruptible British magazine The Economist published on 19/07/2003 still an editorial entitled "Why we still think, on present information and trends, that the war was justified". Apparently the White House and the CIA had been working on a formulation for a Bush speech, which should arouse despite doubts about Iraqi uranium purchases such an impression. Bush had said that Washington had learned of a uranium business Baghdad.

                                           
images without reports and reports without images
In terms of allied and Iraqi disinformation on both sides of both reports were not confirmed by pictures and images recorded without confirmation through relevant reports. For example, although already at 23.3. claimed by the Allies was that there were over 10,000 captured Iraqis and U.S. troops would be greeted with joy by the people, this was the same old images of individual prisoners and the tentatively waving Iraqis illustrated. Mass phenomena would certainly be both of the Allied troops and the embedded journalists otherwise shown in the picture been. The resistance of the Iraqis - whether military or Baath Party irregulars - and the resistance of the population was apparently underestimated by the coalition forces.
found on the Iraqi side on the same day, a search for allegedly using a parachute pilots bailed in Baghdad instead, which could be followed live on western television. was with some settings to see, however, that more journalists than soldiers took part in this search. It was so obviously a staged media event. The channel n-tv repeated in a band picture the low-assertion of the images: "Iraqi military fired into the water" because it was succinct. In the following days this search was hardly discussed yet.
The number of prisoners contradicted themselves constantly. Am 25.3. U.S. military spokesman claimed that there were about 4,000 Iraqi prisoners. Two days earlier, was already about 8,000 prisoners, the speech (it was said, a whole division had shown himself).
The British reported not only misrepresented that the Iraqi Vice President Tariq Aziz had defected, it Scud missiles were fired at Kuwait (there were Silkworm missiles), they were British prisoners were executed literally, or about 8,000 Iraqi soldiers would have resulted in a day. The case of the city Umm Qasr was a total of nine times to early April reported and the control of Basra also repeatedly forced (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 2.4.2003, nine times already, the case of Umm Qasr has been reported).
The question of whether Saddam Hussein was still bothering the media during the entire war, after the fighting with began a surprise by the Allies so-called "decapitation strike" on a supposed whereabouts Hussein. The U.S. is speculated to almost any TV show Hussein as to whether it had been a recent recording by himself, the current inclusion of a doppelganger or an old recording of him. Biometrics include German forensic pathologist reviewed the Iraqi TV footage and concluded that it was for the "real" Saddam Hussein (Focus 13/2003, Biometrics: Disappearance of a dimple).
Is it the real?

The U.S. could be keen to pull its survival and therefore the stability of his rule in doubt. Iraq could however be keen to show that he is alive and the defense of Iraq itself is derived, which could be changing residence and improvised television receivers for the apparently unusual appearance of television pictures in charge. Hussein calling for a jihad, a holy war, on 1.4. followed not only include an unknown amount of volunteers from Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and Palestinians. The street demonstrations in Islamic countries became more frequent and sharpness. Even more moderate Muslim clerics such as representatives of the prestigious Cairo's Al-Azhar University and mosque stood behind the jihad call.


terminology and personification
The effects of the psychological warfare of the First and Second World War are still felt today like this, also influenced by media defamation image of the Germans. At that time, even by official propaganda images were created and find out about it, even on other nations applied, is in many other conflicts such as the application of communication studies Mira Beham. Even the Iraq war was characterized. Even if in the wake of reporting the truth comes to light, once resulting impression was then already impressed in the beginning of the war or its aftermath or in the course of battle had been. In other words: "What counts is the first assertion. Denials are then ineffective, "says media expert Müller-Ullrich.
The name of the opponent were both in the military, as well as Western journalists, to some extent problematic. Thus, the n-tv correspondent Ulrich Klose said on 23.3. That U.S. troops would be fighting delivers with "rebels", as if they were not about to attack the U.S. war against which regular Iraqi troops on their own state site to defend but to be insurgents against a legitimate government. Some stations called the whole debate "war against Saddam," said as if it was not a conflict between several States with the official goal of disarming Iraq. This personification was are also found in other papers (eg, the Express tabloid press and image) and magazines and television stations. . Personifying the reporting had about "Saddam's palaces after U.S. move on 7.4, and almost every German station took the pictures, the U.S. military had made in the palaces - the proverbial golden bathtubs and taps included.
After the collapse of civil order in Iraq continued looting in many cities, some of which were recorded in the picture. In this case the thieves dragged away including vehicles, furniture and computers. In the live reports said the company as palliative: the residents of Baghdad were in the process "so many belongings as possible to organize." The negative terms looting and theft does not seem to fit as a positive perception of withdrawal of the Iraqi state. How many have disappeared over the ancient art treasures looted or destroyed, could not exactly say months after the war.
After the screening of U.S. POWs on Iraqi TV the U.S. was the liberation of prisoners not only in public opinion to gain prestige, but also personify the success. And who looked harmless, as the wounded 19-year U.S. Lance Corporal Jessica Lynch, was rescued from an Iraqi hospital in Nasiriya. The topic has been immediately selected as material for a movie, although after the war - were heard including the British BBC and the German program "Monitor" significant doubts about the liberation history.
Jessica Lynch

Psychological measures
Not only is the population outside of Iraq or the journalist in Iraq were in the crosshairs of the communication of the coalition forces, but also the Iraqi people. As in the last conflict in the Gulf employed the coalition forces again extensive measures of psychological warfare: pamphlets and leaflets, television and radio broadcasting, but and e-mails and SMS messages to Iraqi officers and officials. was
on the leaflets of the U.S. troops asked in this conflict not only to overflow and to surrender. The Iraqi troops were also warned to use mass destruction weapons, destroy infrastructure, to abuse prisoners of war or radar systems use to fight coalition aircraft.
Several radio stations had different objectives to the Iraqis with so-called white (the sender reveals himself) and black (the sender pretends to be someone different) propaganda. Modified Hercules aircraft, which circled at an altitude of 5,000 meters above the Iraq incident, from the air broadcasts on medium wave and FM from. Changes include the Iraqi consciously imitates the transmitter to be credible and the sending habits of the population to adapt. Parallel Iraqi radio station was hampered by interference. But broadcasting stations on the Earth (eg Kuwait) sent from those programs. In addition, programs in Iraq the BBC, Radio Monte Carlo or the US-funded station is Sara in Arabic. In northern Iraq, Kurdish station and sent in Iran, Saudi Arabia or Kuwait other opposition groups (Die Welt, 20.3.2003, air blows out of the ether). Even the media was hardly worth a report. Supposedly should also military personnel and leaders in government and business via SMS and e-mail was addressed to give up the fight. Such rapid success, this has failed.
victims and prisoners
The first and unsuccessful British campaign in Iraq in the First World War had cost in 1915 still some 23,000 dead and wounded, until the British with even more losses in a second campaign in 1917 Baghdad, which was defended by then by the Turks, were able to conquer. In this conflict, large numbers of victims were recorded only on the part of Iraqis. Dealing with both war dead as well as with prisoners left much to be desired on both sides.
After the U.S. suspected Taliban and al-Qaida members caught in their base in Guantanamo Bay were published, their protest against the treatment of captured U.S. soldiers duplicitous. Detlev Vagts of experts such as Harvard Law School or representatives of Amnesty International complained, moreover, that not only the Iraqis were captured Americans, but the reverse also chained the pictures of Iraqi soldiers have been aired in U.S. custody. Both sides referred to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols to the protection of prisoners of war from intimidation, insults and public curiosity, as well as humiliating and degrading treatment ask what they also, (to hurt Financial Times Germany, 25.3.2003, Iraq and U.S. propaganda international law) in these provisions are not mentioned, television appearances count. Similarly, many German papers assess the fact that the U.S. has begun without a UN mandate. International outweighed the criticism of the isolation of the U.S. and Britain.
Iraqi imagery
Summary
Taken overall, the U.S. government consultant Harlan K. Ullman, creator of the strategic concept of "Shock and Awe", disagreeing: The offensive was "magnificent," he said, but this does not run magnificently was the appropriate PR campaign. On the contrary, offensive and communication activities both contributed to the success of coalition forces - and the fact that the war had taken place at first.
notice also must be said that there were many spectacular live coverage of individual events, but insufficient analysis and background information of the overall conflict and its political consequences. Positive individual cases show, for example in the British magazine The Economist, on 7 June 2003 a critical report on possible war crimes UK published "The reality of course, is that British troops have not soldiered impeccably in the past, and they did'nt in Iraq." (The Economist, 7-13.6.203. ). The magazine also discussed outcome - because it shows the political analysis - whether Tony Blair "Tony Bliar" [Tony liar] Is because it has led Britain because of the not found weapons of mass destruction in a war.
showed again that misinformation and propaganda systems have specific characteristics of media. If they have the known message factors (eg, negativity, personification, controversy) that comply journalistic theories of reality, they are taken over potentially make possible - once established - international careers and in other Media quotes. Because of the special circumstances of war reporting media are always potentially vulnerable to misinformation or propaganda, especially when associated with measures of direct or indirect censorship to respond to the journalists with a kind of ritualized form of reporting to ever make such statements.
commentary

literature and references
- M. Beham: war drums. Media, war and politics. Munich 1996
- JR MacArthur, The Battle of the lies. How the U.S. the Gulf war were selling. Munich 1993.
- B. Müller-Ullrich: Media tales. Offender disposition in journalism. Munich 1996.
- S. Weischenberg: Between Censorship and responsibility. How journalists construct (wars). In: M. wooden spoon (ed.): War as a media event. Opladen 1993rd
Information Operations of the U.S. armed forces
war propaganda during World War

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Colors In Cube Runner

Winnenden in the end? Armatix-impact revealed


Many observers have long suspected that the so-called Coalition Winnenden interests represents: in addition to the individual coping with trauma victims of the now only two members, it may have slipped also about to gain a career alternative. Not only because of the rapid onset of action of the PR professional alliance is also the question of the financing. As the daily mirror has now revealed, are also industrial interests in the game. This could mean that the moral credit of the Action Alliance is playful final.
Under the heading "arms company influence in the victim alliance. Propaganda to secure firearms, "reports the Tagesspiegel that in the Establishing the foundation of the Action Alliance Bernd Dietel was present with his company source system support the demands of the Foundation and be used for far-reaching prohibitions and legal changes to safeguard firearms. The distinctive curly Dietel can also be seen on image documents.
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the same time he was majority shareholder of the company Armatix, the biometric security systems for weapons offering. Armatix collaborations included with the company regarding a Smartgun Anschütz - a fact that the Anschütz downplayed the fact that a product flyer was issued as a basis for discussion. Source systems and Armatix were also established under the same business address. Dietel have declared they want to sell in the first year of production up to 20,000 biometrically secure weapons. It is worth noting: Armatix was a member of the Association of Gunsmiths and through this membership, a member of the Forum weapons law. The Guardian reveals the content of cross-connection: "Blatantly the Action Alliance asked in a recently published open letter is a legal requirement for their [Armatix] biometric security systems, promoting even open to the producer, who virtually has a monopoly on this technology." The Action Alliance, which manifests itself to all sorts of firearms crimes that fit close to their own claims (mind you not one of the significantly more frequent acts of illegal firearms), nothing against the Tagesspiegel on these allegations. This lack of transparency in relation to criticism is not unique.

It is true that these relationships were already long been discussed in forums and blogs from shooting circles. The said newspaper article but the first time the general public an insight into this background of the action taken Alliance. Not only by this disclosure, but also by one-sided, exaggerated and too frequent to-word sign with generalizations (large-caliber weapons have no place in sport shooting anything - why not really Who has to be determined) or a serious hoax (alleged, however, refuted Number of votes in an action "Killer Games") seems to be the credibility of this Action Alliance have suffered considerably. Since the activities of the Action Alliance is not on the expertise of weapons and firearms legislation or other aspects of homeland security is based, but on the role as a national sacrifice, that is a moral authority, it may mean the final out. A voluntary dissolution of this organization and a neutral work-up of their activities would be our opinion, a respectable step.

reference
fiasco Winnenden-processing
headquarters weapons storage nonsense