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This is a website based on my Honours course work.

It is an exploration of the impact of modern media coverage upon the military and modern warfare.

My key focus is television, which became a major and somewhat obsessive concern for the civil and military leadership of the United States during the Vietnam conflict.

However, the website also explores the impact of all modern media during an era when, for the developed Western nations, war is a high-technology undertaking.

Since Vietnam, military strategies have focused more and more on setting limited and achievable goals for any military intervention, while at the same time limiting duration of the conflict, keeping casualties to an absolute minimum and keeping the home population on side through intensive information management.

At the same time, the media have become more intrusive, ubiquitous and instantaneous. During the Gulf War, the western alliance kept the media at bay and under tight control. If Vietnam was the first television war, the Gulf War was the first real-time video game war.

What does the future hold for war and the media as time and technology march on into the future?