Generation Kill - Evan Wright

As many people will be aware, the invasion of Iraq will be seen as a defining event of this generation and was subsequently covered from every angle known to man to ensure that the 24 hour media were fed their pound of flesh so to speak. As a brief outline, in the first Gulf War, the then Commander in Chief of US forces in theatre General H. Norman Schwarzkopf believed that to keep the media onside you had to embrace them and as such the concept of embedded reporters was born. This followed on from the first Gulf War and in the weeks leading up to the commencement of hostilities with Iraq as ... more