Explores the territory within military units in Iraq, where press freedom and military imperatives often do battle. This work presents a history of how press-military relations have evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first century in response to the demands of politics, economics, technology, and legal and social forces.

Includes index and bibliographical references.

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.