Comments on: Arguments Along the Northwest Frontier

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:20:47 +0000

A movie about British action along the Northwest Frontier couldn’t've been more timely a decade ago.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:17:40 +0000

Linebarger is a fascinating character. I've been meaning to read Psychological Warfare one day.

By: Stretch

Stretch — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:58:56 +0000

I had the pleasure of meeting Major Masters’ son. The young Masters was pitching his father’s books to Hollywood for a movie or TV deal. Unfortunately there was no interest in the Major’s stories.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:51:15 +0000

“…in the 1920s, the Soviet press expressed resentment and amusement over a ruse adopted by the British in the course of operations in the Northwest Frontier. Plane-mounted loudspeakers had told the Pathans, in Pushto, that God was mad at them for breaking the pledged peace, with the result that they scattered and gave up. This maneuver exasperated the Russians, who themselves were making equally sweeping propaganda inroads on the other side of the Palmirs. The Russians were attacking religion, and having heavy going; it struck them as improper warfare to make use of local superstition.” Paul Linebarger, Psychological Warfare.