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Modern military operations and the media

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute occasional paper ; No. 8Publication details: Camberley, UK: SCSI, 1994Description: 26pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: Looks at some past experiences of military media relations and suggests how they might be improved (from the military perspective) in future. Deals with the growth of global real-time news reporting, especially by television, which has profoundly changed international affairs. Public opinion now requires that Western governments respond to incidents with military interventions, which otherwise might not have taken place, which may then be followed by public protests when casualties are suffered.
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Looks at some past experiences of military media relations and suggests how they might be improved (from the military perspective) in future. Deals with the growth of global real-time news reporting, especially by television, which has profoundly changed international affairs. Public opinion now requires that Western governments respond to incidents with military interventions, which otherwise might not have taken place, which may then be followed by public protests when casualties are suffered.

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