Scattering Chaff : Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War / Robert Bergen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergen, Robert, author.

Series:

Beyond boundaries series.

Beyond Boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (448 p.)

Other Title:

Scattering Chaff

Place of Publication:

Calgary University of Calgary Press 2019

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most Canadians know little, if anything at all, about the role of the Canadian Air Force in the 1999 Kosovo Air War. Yet lives were at put at stake as mission dedication and military skill were pushed to the limit. Some of Canada’s most prominent journalists attempted to report on the war, but came away virtually empty handed. Daily briefings given at the National Defence Headquarters provided so little information most Ottawa journalists simply stopped going. The decision of the military to choke Canada’s news media was deliberate and based on a tactical and strategic rationale. Scattering Chaff explores the role of the Canadian Air Force in the bombing campaigns of the Kosovo Air War while examining the military’s interference with the news media attempting to report to the Canadian public. It explores the ways in which the military has come to manage the media as an element of operational security, mission focus, and of popular opinion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war’s Canadian participants and a treasure-trove of unpublished documents and photographs, this book is an unprecedented investigation of a little-known conflict and the forces that prevented it from being better known.

Contents:

A fearsome aerial ballet

Planning for war

I cringed every time it rained

Don't go to war without it

The fog of war

Prelude to censorship : media, body bags, and the Gulf War

Like an overnight international courier

A blanket of secrecy

Friction and iron will

On body bags and the news media

Canada missed a good News story

Homecomings

Context-less facts, ambiguity, half-truths, and outright lies

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (directory.doabooks.org, viewed March 28, 2023).

OCLC:

1080217564

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvd1c73w