There is a lot going on in this war with Iraq that we don’t know about; while many people may look for nefarious things (and there may be those), there are also a tremendous number of hidden, secret, or otherwise unknown activities that are being undertaken to unseat the Saddam administration. I’m very interested in articles like this one — Is the CIA spamming Iraqi generals? — and others which show that the U.S. is using advanced (and “traditional”) Internet technologies to bring down the regime. In non-virtual conduct, I learned today on NPR of the probable existence of numerous safe houses, inside Baghdad, that have been carefully advertised to Iraqi military officials.
Many new books will be written about the the West’s use of new technologies in this war — and while the most important ones are those preventing missiles from hitting civilian residences, the others will make for good reading.