The Media and the U.S. Army: You Don't Always Get What You Want; You May Just Get What You Need

Abstract

Recently, the Chief of Staff of the Army stated that the United States Army must successfully wield new information technologies to ensure land force dominance into the twenty-first century. Currently the Army is developing an Information Operations Concept that describes the framework for the Army to conduct information warfare; however, the concept only generically treats the dynamic to move information from the battlefield to external audiences such as the American people. Because the media-military relationship will be instrumental in acquiring and disseminating information to the American people, understanding and invoking a stable relationship is of enduring importance to the Army and the nation. Therefore, the purpose of this monograph is to examine the characteristics of the U.S. media--Army relationship in the twenty-first century.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 23, 1994
Accession Number
ADA284136

Entities

People

  • Clinton D. Esarey

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Deployment
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • International Organizations
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • New York
  • Periodicals
  • Public Opinion
  • Training
  • United States
  • Vietnam War
  • Warfare

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design