Suez Crisis Leaflet Fiasco

In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal after the Egyptian President nationalized it. Led by a British colonel lacking prior psychological warfare experience, they dropped leaflet bombs over villages to persuade ordinary Egyptians to support the invasion, promising it would stop the spread of communism and improve their lives. However, due to a failure to account for barometric differences between England and Egypt, the bombs detonated at head height instead of 300 meters in the air. This denied the invaders the favor they had hoped to receive from the Egyptians.