Today POGO is releasing a new Fighting with Failures report on the Predator unmanned aircraft. In recent months the Predator has been dubbed a hero of the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has yet to provide a shred of evidence in support of the hype - to see the Predator Fighting with Failures fact sheet.

According to another new publication, hype reigned over reality during Operation Desert Storm when the Pentagon said the Patriot missile was knocking Iraqi Scud missiles out of the sky in incredible numbers. Government investigators and scientists later proved these claims to be highly overblown, and, in fact, presented convincing evidence that the Patriot was a miserable failure. There were other success claims during the Gulf War that were later proven to be greatly exaggerated:

These and other myths are debunked in a new publication, Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air Campaign, Ross & Perry Inc., 2002. The myth-busting book includes a 20-page forward written by a longtime national security analyst, known as "Spartacus," who also alleges Pentagon interference in the 1997 GAO report (reprinted in the book) auditing the 1991 Gulf air war.

For more information on the book link to: http://www.rossperry.com/operation_desert_storm.html

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