Most 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 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 Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war's Canadian participants and a treasure-trove of unpublished photographs, this book is an unprecedented investigation of a little-known conflict and the forces that prevented it from being better known.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 949.710315
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781773850306 9781773850320
- LCCN
- DR2087.5
- LCCN Item number
- B47 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 328 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239620 (OCoLC)1080217564 (CaOOCEL)457652
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Series Page 3
- Full Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Illustrations 10
- Abbreviations and Nomenclature 12
- Acknowledgements 16
- Introduction | Kosovo: Canada’s Unknown Air War 18
- 1 | A Fearsome Aerial Ballet 30
- 2 | Planning for War 54
- 3 | I Cringed Every Time It Rained 76
- 4 | Don’t Go to War without It 96
- 5 | The Fog of War 120
- 6 | Prelude to Censorship: Media, Body Bags, and the Persian Gulf War 136
- 7 | Like an Overnight International Courier 162
- 8 | A Blanket of Secrecy 186
- 9 | Friction and Iron Will 208
- 10 | On Body Bags and the News Media 228
- 11 | Canada Missed a Good News Story 238
- 12 | Homecomings 254
- 13 | Context-Less Facts, Ambiguity, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies 270
- Afterword 282
- Notes 290
- Bibliography 330
- Index 342
- Back Cover 346
