McFreedom

Belmont Club has a characteristically excellent article on the new battlefield - the media:

It was during the Vietnam War that the Left first discovered the potential war-winning ability of media coverage. The concept itself is merely an extension of the blitzkrieg notion that the enemy command structure, not his troop masses, are the true center of gravity on the battlefield. During the campaign of 1940, Heinz Guderian's panzers bypassed many French formations, leaving them unfought, knowing that if their command structure were severed, the whole musclebound mass would fall to the ground headless. What the Left gradually discovered during the course of the Vietnam war was that Guderian had not been bold enough. Guderian still felt it necessary to win on the battlefield. He had not realized that it was possible to ignore the battlefield altogether because it was the enemy political structure, not his military capability, that was the true center of gravity of an entire campaign...

[M]odern day Jihadis have decided to create their own media outlets like Al Jazeera to shape public opinion. Moreover, they have extended proven methods of intimidating the Western media, described by CNN's Eason Jordan in his article in the New York Times to a standard operation of war. This set up a clash between two forces, one enjoying a preponderance in every area of military capability and skill but failing to recognize news coverage as a strategic weapon; and another whose military strategy was literally made for television.

Many of the soldiers in this new battle are unaware it exists, of course. Most leftists aren't aware they're fighting at all, much less on the other side. Worse, if the media causes us to snatch defeat from the very jaws of victory, it will in no small part be the State Department's fault, for failing to even take the battlefield overseas. Yet, undoubtedly, the same media that unknowingly lost the homefront war will lay blame for the foreign failures at the feet of the same military whose military successes are unparalleled in history.

There is much more in the original article worth reading and I recommend it to you highly.