by lundry | Jan 18, 2012 | Afghanistan, Image, Indonesia, Iraq, Media, Military, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry (with R. Bennett Furlow) It did not take long for the images of the US Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters to go viral. A moment of lapsed judgment will circulate as long as anyone is interested in seeing it, certainly long after short...
by editor | Nov 2, 2010 | Analysis, Defense Dept., Image, Intelligence, Iraq, Media, Military, Strategic Comm.
by Cameron Bean and Bennett Furlow On Friday, October 22, Wikileaks released almost 400,000 documents on the Iraq War. At first Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell seemed to downplay the release, claiming the documents were “essentially snapshots of events” and do...
by goodall | Sep 1, 2010 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Framing, Iraq, Narrative, Obama, Politics
by Bud Goodall President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office last night announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. The speech was largely driven by his choice of a defining metaphor: “We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in...
by mm13 | Mar 30, 2009 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Iraq, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Monika Maslikowski & Z.S. Justus As observers of Al-Qa’ida’s media strategy we notice a trend in their communication: When a conflict around the world involving a Muslim country heats ups, AQ leadership is quick to jump on the opportunity to provide...
by editor | Jun 30, 2008 | Afghanistan, Iraq, Politics
by Steven R. Corman I remember arriving in Karlsruhe, Germany on March 17, 2003. It was two days before the Iraq invasion. I didn’t know the date certain of the invasion, of course, but I knew for certain it was coming. I was quite worried (needlessly, as...
by editor | Jun 14, 2008 | Analysis, Iraq, Language, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman During my usual media grazing I ran across an article published yesterday in Aljazeera Magazine by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, in the “reviews” section. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be reviewing, but on the surface it has...