ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers how wars were conducted and reported in the 1990s and looks at the 1991 Gulf War and the 1999 Kosovo War. It explores the new model of top-down, military media management introduced in 1991 and reapplied in 1999 that was designed to win over domestic and international support and enable the US military to fight a war in the glare of the world's media. The book also considers how the political case was made for the invasion of Iraq as part of the 'War on Terror' and the failure of the mainstream media to challenge this narrative. It also looks at the rise of wearable military technologies and the technological augmentation of soldiers, simulations and experiments in brain–computer interfaces. The book examines developments in robotics and the emergence of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
