Scattering Chaff

Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War

Bob Bergen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2019
University of Calgary Press (Verlag)
9781773850306 (ISBN)

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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. The book explores the ways in which the military manages the media as an element of operational security, mission focus, and popular opinion.

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 Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war's Canadian participants and a treasure-trove of unpublished documents and photographs, this book is an unprecedented investigation of a little-known conflict and the forces that prevented it from being better known.

Bob Bergen is an adjunct assistant professor at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He was a staff journalist at The Albertan from 1976-1980 and the Calgary Herald from 1980-2000. He is the author of Censorship, The Canadian News Media, and Afghanistan.

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Abbreviations and Nomeclature
Acknowledgments
Introduction-Kosovo: Canada's Unknown Air War
1. A Fearsome Aerial Ballet
2. Planning for War
3. I Cried Every Time It Rained
4. Don't Go to War Without It
5. The Fog of War
6. Prelude to Censorship: Media, Body Bags, and the Gulf War
7. Like an Overnight International Courier
8. A Blanket of Secrecy
9. Friction and Iron Will
10. On Body Bags and the News Media
11. Canada Missed a Good News Story
12. Homecomings
13. Context-Less Facts, Ambiguity, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
14. Afterward
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
Zusatzinfo	19 black & white photos
Verlagsort	Calgary
Sprache	englisch
Maße	223 x 208 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781773850306 / 9781773850306
Zustand	Neuware