‘Big picture’ must wait
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After 20 years of the media arguing, pleading, demanding the kind of access offered by the embed program, it beggared belief to find them almost immediately under assault for promoting partiality and missing the big picture. Talk about moving the goalposts! (But to where?)
One crucial point is that the “big picture” of this war will only come to light when the military sits down, many months from now, and digests and reflects upon everything that happened, and when, five to 10 years later, middle-rank officers begin writing memoirs and spill the beans on what was left out of the Pentagon histories.
Even today, the internal military evaluations of Grenada -- almost one of the bloodiest disasters in U.S. military history -- have never been made public.
Trevor Butterworth
Washington, D.C.
Trevor Butterworth is a research fellow at the Center for Media and Public Affairs.
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