{"id":12339,"date":"2008-11-16T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/eccm.html"},"modified":"2008-11-16T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T08:30:23","slug":"eccm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/11\/16\/eccm.html","title":{"rendered":"ECCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E<span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">lectronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy&#8217;s use of electronic warfare.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Charles Schulz, in his May 12, 1952, &quot;Peanuts&quot; strip, evoked talk of electronic warfare in a way that seemed to me to be out of its time. Not being familiar with science fiction of that time I think I might simply be surprised to find this type of language in this particular cartoon strip in 1952. In later years Snoopy&#8217;s adventures might take him through all manner of rocketry and force fields, but as I read through the first volume of &quot;The Complete Peanuts&quot; covering 1950 to 1952 I was somewhat surprised by the May 12, 1952, strip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Shermy<\/b>: BANG! I got you, Charlie Brown!<\/p>\n<p><b>Charlie Brown<\/b>: No, you didn&#8217;t!! I&#8217;m wearing a bullet-proof suit!<\/p>\n<p><b>Shermy<\/b>: But I shot you with an armor-piercing ray-gun!<\/p>\n<p><b>Charlie Brown<\/b>: But I&#8217;ve got radioactive X-Rays all around me!<\/p>\n<p><b>Shermy<\/b>: But my gun shoots atomic reduction heat waves!<\/p>\n<p><b>Charlie Brown<\/b>: Oh,&#8230;. Well,&#8230; In that case I guess you got me!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the dialogue from a &quot;Peanuts&quot; strip without its drawings reminds me of a &quot;big, big secret&quot; I was let in on in 1997 or 1998. The secret was that some company had secured venture capital funding to transcribe the text portion of the complete run of &quot;Peanuts.&quot; I wonder what ever became of that seemingly ludicrous bonfire of venture capital moneys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy&#8217;s use of electronic warfare. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-eccm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}