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245 1 0 _aScattering Chaff: Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War
260 _bUniversity of Calgary Press
_c2019
300 _a1 electronic resource (448 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aMost 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 Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war’s Canadian participants and a treasure-trove of unpublished documents and photographs, this book is an unprecedented investigation of a little-known conflict and the forces that prevented it from being better known.
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546 _aEnglish
653 _aCanadian Air Force
653 _aKosovo
653 _aCensorship
653 _aHistory
653 _aPolitical Science
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