LEADER 05841nam 22006731 450 001 9910790780103321 005 20230124183023.0 010 $a0-19-999801-9 010 $a0-19-989039-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001159466 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25858286 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001041755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12462171 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11050005 035 $a(PQKB)10953147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1561210 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1561210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10796871 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL542670 035 $a(OCoLC)862745777 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001159466 100 $a20121116h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen soldiers fall $ehow Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan /$fSteven Casey 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (336 pages )$cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-989038-2 311 $a1-306-11419-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCensorship and the first casualty controversy: World War I, 1917-1918 -- Bad news in the "good war": World War II, 1941-1943 -- The price of victory: World War II, 1944-1945 -- Partisanship and the police action: the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Vietnam: the escalating war, 1961-1968 -- Vietnam: de-escalation and defeat, 1969-1989 -- Gulf Wars: Iraq and Afghanistan, 1990-2011. 330 8 $aWhen Soldiers Fall traces the history of American combat losses and the ways in which the government has reported casualties from WWI to the current War on Terror.$bThe extent to which combat casualties influence the public's support for war is one of the most frequently and fiercely debated subjects in current American life and has cast an enormous shadow over both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. The common assumption, based largely on U.S. experience in past wars, is that the public is in some way casualty averse or casualty shy, and that as losses increase its support for a war will inexorably decline. Yet this assumption has beenadopted as conventional wisdom without any awareness of one of the most important dimensions of the issue: how has the public become aware of the casualties sustained during particular wars? To what extent has the government tried to manipulate or massage the figures? When and why have these officialfigures been challenged by opportunistic political opponents or aggressive scoop-seeking reporters? As Steven Casey demonstrates, at key moments in most wars what the public actually receives is not straightforward and accurate casualty totals, but an enormous amount of noise based on a mixture of suppression, suspicion, and speculation. This book aims to correct this gap in information by showing precise what casualty figures the government announced during its various wars, the timing of these announcements, and any spin officials may have placed upon these, using a range of hithertountapped primary documents. Among the nuggets he has uncovered is that during World War I the media depended on Axis figures and that the Army and Navy did not announce casualty figures for an entire year during World War II. Organized chronologically, the book addresses the two world wars, the limitedwars in Korea and Vietnam, and the recent conflicts that are part of the War on Terror. Using sources such as the private military command papers of Generals Patton, MacArthur, and Westmoreland, and previously unopened New York Times archives, it offers the first analysis of how the U.S. government has publicized combat casualties during these wars, and how these official announcements have been debated and disputed by other voices in the polity. Casey discusses factors such as changes ofpresidential administration, the improvement of technology, the sending of war correspondents to cover multiple conflicts, and the increasing ability to identify bodies. Casey recreates the complicated controversies that have surrounded key battles, and in doing so challenges the simplicity of theoft-repeated conventional wisdom that " By integrating military and political history, he presents a totally new interpretation of U.S. domestic propaganda since 1917, filling a major gap left by a spate of recent books. Finally, it provides a fresh and engaging new perspective on some of the biggest battles in recent American history, including the Meuse-Argonne, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, China's intervention in the Korean War, the TetOffensive, and the recent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.This book should speak to the military, political, and media history markets, and it should also reach a wider audience that is debating contemporary casualty figures. 606 $aCasualty aversion (Military science)$zUnited States 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aMass media and war$zUnited States 606 $aWar casualties$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWar casualties$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aWar casualties$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 615 0$aCasualty aversion (Military science) 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aMass media and war 615 0$aWar casualties$xHistory 615 0$aWar casualties$xHistory 615 0$aWar casualties$xPublic opinion. 676 $a355.4/22 700 $aCasey$b Steven$0475870 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790780103321 996 $aWhen soldiers fall$93713433 997 $aUNINA