L.I.E.S.    Language in Extreme Situations

A web against the use of Language as a Weapon of Mass Deception

 

 

 

COLLATERAL LANGUAGE
A Glossary to Understand (and Avoid) the Language of Mass Deception



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Ocupación

Embedding

Sensitive Site Exploitation

Hot Contact Point

Blue On Blue

Eye-raq

Rapid Dominance

Fixing

Breaking the China


Mouseholing

Strike Package

Regime Target

Mercenaries

Doublespeak

 

 

Regime Target

(Source: «Language of war. Decoding the jargon of war», Nicholas Watt and Rory McCarthy,The Guardian)

Even with harrowing pictures of young victims of allied bombing in Basra, Britain and the US insisted yesterday that they are only striking Saddam Hussein and the infrastructure that supports his regime. These are, in the military parlance, regime targets, which include presidential palaces, the army, security service and intelligence headquarters

 

 

 

 




 

 

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