ABSTRACT
The battle for information and the contest over the winning of public opinion is a feature common to all conflicts. Attempts by the US government and the military to control and manage news during the invasion phase of the 2003 Iraq conflict involved a number of different measures and procedures. Using familiar techniques of censorship, misinformation, obfuscation, and psychological operations to varying degrees, the US was able to frustrate journalists and news organizations in their search for information. But it is the process of embedding journalists with military units that is the subject of discussion here and its implications for the future reporting of conflict.
