Disappearing the Dead: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Idea of a 'New Warfare'
Carl Conetta
Project on Defense Alternatives
Moving Ideas
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is not the only war-related subject clouded by misinformation. According to this new study, the Pentagon conducted "perception management" campaigns during the Afghan and Iraq wars that also obstructed the public's awareness of civilian casualties. These activities included Pentagon efforts to "spin" casualty stories in ways that minimized their significance or cast unreasonable doubt on their reliability. Efforts also may have included the placement of misleading news stories. The report concludes that masking the casualty problem leaves America unprepared for the consequences of war and it proposes treating casualties on all sides as a cost of war that must be examined, estimated, and disclosed.
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