Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.

On the shoulders of giants : war correspondents before World War I -- Words as weapons : World War I propaganda and censorship -- A free and patriotic press : journalists and the home front in World War II -- On the team : reporting, and supporting, World War II -- The great divorce : Korea and Vietnam -- See no evil : controlling access in the 1980s and 1990s -- The velvet glove : press-military accommodation in the twenty-first century -- The future : the quest for more light.

Because news is a weapon of war-affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy-for more than a century America's wartime officials have sought to control or influence the press, most recently by "embedding" reporters within military units in Iraq. This second front, where press freedom and military imperatives often do battle, is the territory explored in The Military and the Press, a timely look at how press-military relations have evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in response to the demands of politics, economics, technology, and legal and social forces. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.