Contents

• From victory to defeat
• The Great War and the fight between good and evil : the birth of war propaganda
• The good fight : from the first draft to the grand narrative - - The Korean War : remembering the forgotten
• Vietnam : shattered illusions
• Eyes wide shut : the not-so-secret wars of Central America and the Caribbean
• Visions of instability : telling stories on television news
• The problem of seeing and believing : empathy, denial and war’s human costs
• The office of public diplomacy : creating fear and favor
• Invading Grenada : Entebbe- style rescue, or the first preemptive strike?
• Oliver North : the war hero and the scandal
• Dover Air Force Base, press pools and the Panama invasion
• The first Persian Gulf war : the battle over access, video game imagery and smart bombs
• Trading the first amendment to defeat the "Vietnam syndrome"
• Consuming the Persian Gulf War : from baby incubators to patriot missiles
• CNN : 24 hours of war
• How the war was remembered : from Courage under fire to Saving Private Ryan
• Terrorism, censorship and patriotism : re-scripting victory culture - - From tragedy to war after 9/11
• Black Hawk down : the new logics of war and representation
• The Iraq "reality" war : embeds and militainment
• The military- entertainment complex : permanent war and the digital spectacular
• Of smart weapons, civilian casualties and the crimes of war : the whole world (except the United States) is watching
• The "entertainer-in chief" and the Downing Street memos
• The unraveling : the ghost of Vietnam and the soldiers "over there."