The Media and the Military

by Peter Jesser and Peter R. Young

Book Overview

The first comprehensive study of the contentious issue of the public's right to know in time of war or limited conflict. The book traces the uneasy relations between the military and a generally unprepared and gullible media, from the Crimea to the present day. It shows how the advent of nuclear warfare has outlawed the nationalistic wars of survival of the past, and freed the citizen from his age-old obligations in time of war, able to make up his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333719050
• ISBN13: 9780333719053
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"