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Cable News And the Fog of War
Naval Institute Press
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
156 pages
ISBN: 1591140072
EAN: 9781591140078
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
What happens when a nation loses an important part of its
connection with history, when its heritage and even its
roots are sacrificed to political expediency? When the
offspring of The Greatest Generation out source national
service to Other People’s Kids? Finally, having distanced
themselves from the harsh realities of war, what happens
when an implacable enemy with an ideology of
generations-long conflict attacks this country? The answer
is that the nation watches the war on TV, the "Electronic
Coliseum" that substitutes for the direct experience that
our Founders always assumed would be a cornerstone of
American democracy. WARHEADS reveals what goes on behind the closed doors of
that coliseum, from the make-up rooms and TV studios of
cable news to the E-ring conference rooms of the Pentagon.
Written by one of the best-known members of television’s
elite cadre of military analysts, or Warheads, Colonel Ken
Allard’s hard-hitting and often hilarious narrative shows
how he and his colleagues from MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News
covered the events of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the
invasion of Iraq--usually in "hits" of three minutes or
less. In his book, Allard also considers the tough issues
that the Warheads could seldom wedge into their hits: that
technology is never the final answer in warfare and that,
from Hurricane Katrina to the war on terror, no robot can
substitute for the American soldier. He concludes with the
highly provocative question: are the American political and
media establishments up to the challenges of a war from
which there may be neither end nor retreat?
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