These five papers—Information Operations and the New Threat, by Lieutenant Colonel Terry R. Ferrell, USA; The Media and National Security Decision Making, by Lieutenant Colonel James M. Marye, USA; Embedded Media: Failed Test, or the Future of Military/Media Relations? by Lieutenant Colonel Michael J. Oehle, USMC; Leveraging the Media: The Embedded Media Program in Operation Iraqi Freedom, by Colonel Glenn T. Starnes, USMC; and Embedding Success into the Military Media Relationship, by Commander Jose L. Rodriguez, USNR—have been collected in this volume. With the authors’ experiences fresh in their minds, these papers provide a timely and credible review of the successes and failures of the Embedded Media Program; moreover, they provide recommendations and predictions of future difficulties that should be reviewed by anyone with a role to play in the evolving relationship between the media and the military.
