Whats so new, really? Covert goes overt. (Score 1)

As an Australian, I like to think I'm (a little) more immune to the US media (propaganda?) saturation than, well, Americans I guess. Something struck me as I heard the emerging military "proposals" or maybe call them "statements of intention" that sounded to me like they were trying to prepare anyone for a "long, hard, dirty war". I do realise that we can't all hear everything and I'm not naive enough to pretend that I understand the codephrasing either, but I think that rather than some hi tech war, it reads like they want to do all the covert dirty tricks stuff they always do, but out in the open.