03356nam 2200553 450 991034669780332120230328125903.0(CKB)4920000000094716(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90029(NjHacI)994920000000094716(EXLCZ)99492000000009471620230328d2019 uy 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierScattering Chaff Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War /Robert BergenCalgary :University of Calgary Press,2019.©20191 electronic resource (448 p.)Beyond Boundaries1-77385-031-8 Includes bibliographical references.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.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 Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war’s Canadian participants and a treasure-trove of unpublished documents and photographs, this book is an unprecedented investigation of a little-known conflict and the forces that prevented it from being better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.Beyond boundaries series.Scattering ChaffInternational relationsPeace studies & conflict resolutionbicsscBiography & True StoriesbicsscInternational relationsbicsscKosovoCanadian Air ForceHistoryPolitical ScienceCensorshipInternational relations.Peace studies & conflict resolution.Biography & True Stories.International relations.327Bergen Robert1349193NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910346697803321Scattering Chaff3087106UNINA