ABSTRACT
Saddam Hussein declared the conflict over Kuwait to be the ‘Mother of Battles’. He may have been right. History may show that his war with the United Nations fundamentally changed the Middle East. History may also show that while Grenada 1983 was a skirmish in terms of warfare it may also have been the information warfare ‘mother of battles’. If this is so, it will be because Grenada was a watershed in relations between the media and the military – the age of instant information. It marked a start toward equilibrium in the relationship between the government, the military and the news media.
