The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.