Spinney was sitting in the study of his home in Alexandria, Virginia, when Brigadier General Richard Neal, the American spokesman during the Gulf War, went on television to brief the press on the extraordinary success of coalition forces. He told of a confused Iraqi Army whose soldiers were surrendering by the hundreds of thousands. Asked for a reason, he said, “We kind of got inside his decision cycle.” “Son of a bitch!” Spinney shouted. He called Boyd and said, “John, they’re using your words to describe how we won the war.
