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By William M. Hammond
Public Affairs: the army and the Media, 1968-1973, the sequel quantity to William M. Hammond's Public Affairs: the army and the Media, 1962-1968, maintains the background and research of the connection among the click and the army through the ultimate years of the Vietnam clash. hoping on reputable files and histories, information media resources and interviews, and demanding secondary works, Hammond has conscientiously and capably traced the numerous turns that public affairs regulations and campaigns took to guard army secrets and techniques with out diminishing the independence of reports correspondents. monstrous quantities of knowledge have been imminent with no endangering U.S. forces, yet neither the click nor the govt. was once completely chuffed with the method. Doubts and criticisms loomed huge, giving upward push to tensions and disagreements. With a few exceptions, the army and the scoop media grew to become enemies. What occurred in Vietnam among the army and the inside track media used to be symptomatic of what had happened within the usa as a complete. Hammond's well-written account increases the problems and difficulties which may confront an open society at conflict, documenting occasions and precedents that would proceed to impact military-media kinfolk in the course of destiny operations. It bargains very important classes for squaddies, newsmen, policymakers, and the general public at huge.
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An extremely serious breach of securi ty, the story prompted a major, if futil e in vesti ga ti on by the Military Assis tance Command to determ ine how McArthur had come by his information. Since no infraction of the MACV gui delines for the press had occurred, there was little anyone could do to punish the reporter himself. H e went unscathed. " In the end, despite Da c's revelations a nd McArthur's article, the enemy proceeded with the attack, perhaps because his main objective had less to do with winning a military victory than with h arming the morale of the South Vieh1amese people and demonstrating his continued ability to s trike at w ill.
S. relations with South Vietnam. They also passed on rumors circulating in Saigon that the United States was deliberately trying to kill supporters of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky because Ky had become increasingly anti-American in outlook. s. "" ll Msg, Sa igon 27764 to State, 20 May 68, sub: Assessment of Enemy's May Offensive. " Msg, Saigon 28986 to State, 3 Jun 68, Pol 27 Viet 5 fi le, FAIM/IR. " Msg, State 175631 to Paris, Donnelly for Jordan, 4 JUIl 68, Pol 27 Viet 5 file, FAIM/IR. Quote from Karl H.
Ll Msg, Sa igon 27764 to State, 20 May 68, sub: Assessment of Enemy's May Offensive. " Msg, Saigon 28986 to State, 3 Jun 68, Pol 27 Viet 5 fi le, FAIM/IR. " Msg, State 175631 to Paris, Donnelly for Jordan, 4 JUIl 68, Pol 27 Viet 5 file, FAIM/IR. Quote from Karl H. Purnell, "Operation SeIJ-Destructioll," Natioll, 26 Aug 68, p. 29. 25 Memo, Charles Swee t for General Edward Lansda le, 12 May 68, sub: Visit to Dis tricts 6 and 8, covered by Me mo, Lansdale for Ambassador Bunker, 2 May 68, s ub: Popular Reaction, both in Papers of Clark Clifford, box 5, Abrams, Creighton (1), LBJ Library.