9. Perspective (War and Media‪)‬

Analyzing "American" Wars As was mentioned at the beginning of this discussion, I have concentrated on the later history of the mass media's involvement with wars, as well as tending to focus on both American media and American wars. Both emphases seem justified on the grounds that the American wars have been well documented--more fully, for example, than Soviet and Russian wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya, various conflicts in Africa, or the Communist conquest of China--and also because they have embodied a rapid evolution in both the technological and human sides of war reporting and of the relationship of the media to military operations.