-Education: Fieldcraft and Acclimation-
Using information and propaganda as a weapon were not a new concept in 1990, but in some ways the Gulf War was a time when psychological warfare and disseminating pertinent information to allied and opposing forces became not only necessary, but played a large part in winning the conflict.
It has to be said that the reason so many of Iraqi’s conscripts surrendered is because they had been educated on the way and the ability to do so via air dropped leaflets developed by various groups within the US military. If you would like to know more about those, I highly recommend the Psywarrior website which has a repository of stories and publications.
What I really want to bring attention to is the information that ended up in the hands of American soldiers; mostly educational material meant to acclimate and assist soldiers in the desert. I have scanned a number of these from my collection and turned them into searchable PDF’s that are available for download.