The Pentagon is the biggest headache for the White House, because it often causes trouble, creates trouble, and disagrees with the government. For the Pentagon, it is to get more funding through the conflict, to complete the expansion and expansion of the institution. This is obvious.

The Cold War mentality of the United States will never recede. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States set its sights on Japan, and then China, and began to publish an annual assessment of China's armed forces.

The Middle East and Afghanistan are not a temporary drain on US strategic capabilities. As a result of these constraints, the United States is stretched thin in its ability to operate in the world. The so-called return of the United States to the Asia-Pacific region is a false proposition, because the United States has never really left.

1. In the United States, which flaunts freedom of the press, the media has become the scapegoat of the military

An official of the U.S. Department of Defense disclosed that the Department of Defense uses taxpayers' money to hire private public relations firms to investigate U.S. journalists accompanying the military in Afghanistan and evaluate their reporting on the basis of positive, negative and neutral criteria, while also making recommendations on how to influence the news coverage, which is totally disrespectful to the U.S. Constitution, which the military swears to uphold.

Journalists' dealings with the military are not new, but the use of text or photojournalists to accompany them to the battlefield began when the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003. Proponents argue that this would bring journalists closer to the scene so they can quickly report war news. Opponents argue that this form of reporting with the military may make journalists more sympathetic to the military they are reporting on, and that journalists are required to sign contracts restricting reporting before they leave, so this approach does not help to improve the objectivity of reporting.

Western society represented by the United States has always flaunted freedom of the press, but in fact, the US military's manipulation of the media is a very long-term problem, and it is not a short-term matter. In this way, the US media is still being investigated, which is indeed a bit unjust, because under the interference of the US government departments, the US media has actually cooperated very much.

It should not be surprising that such a tendency has emerged. Because there is little and little pure press freedom in the world, almost nothing. Journalism is like this, and the choice of events is very expressive. For example, if there are 100 real events that happened today, but 5 are reported, and the other 95 are not reported, the 5 selected must have a great tendency.

Americans attach great importance to the power of the press, most notably the Vietnam War. Americans say that the Vietnam War was lost on the television screen and on the dissemination of the news. The whole thing was out of the control of the government and the military, and they reported all day long on the casualties of the US troops, how the officers and soldiers missed their hometowns, and how the environment in that part of Vietnam was bad, which finally led to the collapse of the morale of the US military and the morale of the United States, and led to the surge of anti-war in the country.

I think it's ridiculous for the U.S. government and military to make such a summary. The United States went to the jungle of Vietnam to fight such a war, saying that it was to protect the safety of the American people, this is too bizarre, who would believe it! The media will be said to be the culprit of the defeat of the war, and they will not admit that their strategic decisions have gone wrong, and this is the way to find a scapegoat.

They thought that the lack of control of the news media during the Vietnam War was a big problem, so they made a big improvement on the technical level, in terms of military transparency, trying to dominate the news media. For example, in the 1991 Gulf War, the Americans fully mobilized the media to make their opponents stink. In the Gulf War, with the help of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein was made stinky - portraying the enemy as the most vicious devil in the world, and the Americans became the way to act for heaven; The Iraq War blackened Saddam Hussein again and presented the US military operation in Iraq to the whole world as the action of a liberator. Compared to the Vietnam War, the news media was generally very cooperative with the U.S. military's actions in Iraq. As a result, the war has been stalemate for many years, the losses are huge, the terrorist attacks are continuous, and the number of casualties is rising.

The US news media had to slowly revise their stance and report on more realistic situations, such as the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case. The U.S. military also said that the news media was playing a bad role again. In fact, the media has only exposed a small part of the problems of the US military, or has the national interest been the priority of the larger problem.

So it can be seen that the manipulation of the media by the US military is actually a long-term problem. The American media has been very cooperative with the military, has done a lot of work, and has made great boasts about these two wars. In the end, it was the military themselves who screwed things up.

The war in Iraq is not working, and it is transferred to Afghanistan, but the same question arises again, who is screwing up the situation in Afghanistan? The military can't help but look for scapegoats, and the media is such a scapegoat.