ABSTRACT
This chapter links the "military entertainment complex" of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) era with that of today, showing the underlying techniques that join both eras. The upshot of institutional marriage in United States is the extent and cost of contemporary militarisation. The US Department of Defense (DoD) takes an explicitly militarised view of narrative in achieving its outcomes. Narrative is a part of military strategy, and 'the battle of the narrative' is 'a full-blown battle in the cognitive dimension of information environment'. Whatever the reasons for Donald Trump's win, they are no doubt complex and various. What is clear, though, is that Trump's presidency is a direct and total integration of the military industrial complex with global entertainment industries. The United States has elected an Entertainer-In-Chief who communicates policy and opinion by what have been termed 'tweedicts'. As an institution purporting to be the organ of important truths and democratic values, news was natural target for the CPI.
