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9780415416597

War and Media Operations: The US Military and the Press from Vietnam to Iraq

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415416597

  • ISBN10:

    0415416590

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-04-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xi
Introductionp. 1
The military as a learning organizationp. 13
Perspectives on military learningp. 15
A model of strategic innovationp. 25
The history of media operationsp. 51
Disastrous public affairs: Vietnamp. 53
Restrictive public affairs: Grenada, Panama, and the Persian Gulfp. 64
Experimental public affairs: Somalia, the Balkans, and Afghanistanp. 89
A case study of strategic innovationp. 109
Retrieving past experiences?p. 111
Strategic public affairs: Iraqp. 144
Discussion and outlookp. 173
The friendly learning loopp. 175
The adversarial learning loopp. 186
Appendixp. 197
Notesp. 199
Select bibliographyp. 219
Indexp. 223
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