I’m reading Michael Hastings’ The Operator: The Wild and Terrifying Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. He reports that during the Iraq War “the Pentagon had launched a searching, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul and reshape its media strategy… The Pentagon had about twenty-seven thousand people working on public relations, spending $4.7 billion in a single year.”
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