"Believe me, guys, time is not on our side!!" Arabic leaflet V04, Gulf War
Two-sided Arabic leaflet for Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait. The front carries the line 'Believe me, guys, time is not on our side!!' beside an hourglass marked 15 January; the back reads 'Oh, my son, when will you return?' The tell is the pairing of a deadline with a mother's voice: a countdown to the UN ultimatum of 15 January 1991 and a plea from home, with no mention of terms of surrender.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- 1990
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- US armed forces psychological operations (4th Psychological Operations Group, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- George H. W. Bush Administration
- Leader
- George H. W. Bush
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Gulf War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive (Hollen Song collection), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, 17 U.S.C. 105)
US Army psychological operations leaflet, Gulf War, 1990. Scan via Internet Archive, uploader nathanielsong2004.
