Scattering Chaff : : Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War / / Robert Bergen.
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...
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| Superior document: | Beyond Boundaries |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Calgary : : University of Calgary Press,, 2019. ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beyond boundaries series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (448 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.