The Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Carmen Medina spoke during a panel session about how the media shapes what the future would look like for joint force commanders. Medina says commanders must react quickly to bad news before the public creates their own perceptions on bad situations.
“I think, in the future world, civilian casualities will not be tolerated. The line between war making and criminality will become blurred and differ from state to state. The ability to communicate happens in a flash. As a commander, if you are not immediately competing with a story, you are sunk. Perceptions are what ideas are about. There are concepts that are greater than an individual life, but why non-involved people must die for a cause is not clear to people like it used to be.”
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[...] Ms. Carmen Medina encourages commanders to react quickly to internal news [...]