". . . Military public affairs efforts are the result of decades of attempts at meeting the media's--and hence the public's--need for information, balanced against the government's ability to protect its people and operational plans."
The Pentagon Is Fighting--and Winning--the Public Relations War
"Through the up-close-and-personal view of America's fighting men and women provided by embedded correspondents [in Iraq], the credibility of the individual soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, and Coast Guardsman has dramatically improved."