ABSTRACT
The French Revolution changed the character of warfare. The ideas of von Clausewitz were relevant even during the Gulf War. The Gulf War was not the first war in the Arab region during which the Western mass media built an Arab leader up as the enemy. The PR agency Hill & Knowlton played a major part in the preparations for the Gulf War. The documents stated that for military reasons Sicily was so obviously the place to land, the Allies would choose another place. Three more reasons for institutionalizing censorship during wartime are the morale of the soldiers, the morale of the population, and world public opinion. To stabilize belligerent public opinion, the government stigmatizes the enemy as aggressor or as a nonhuman monster. A review of newspaper editorial coverage of the Gulf Crisis concluded that Saddam Hussein proved to be the quintessential bad guy.
