Complacent media fails debate over ‘empire’ wars

Complacent media fails debate over ‘empire’ wars

Reviewed book by Nicky Hager Publication date: October, 2011 Nicky Hager's main charge in Other People’s Wars is that New Zealand’s defence and foreign affairs establishment has developed a culture where some senior officers ‘wanted to obey the government only when they agreed wi...

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Main Author: David Beatson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pacific Media Centre 2011-10-01
Series:Pacific Journalism Review
Online Access:https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/359
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spelling doaj-b34361f09150467b8583d6ce7c864e062020-11-25T03:52:43ZengPacific Media CentrePacific Journalism Review1023-94992324-20352011-10-0117210.24135/pjr.v17i2.359Complacent media fails debate over ‘empire’ warsDavid Beatson Reviewed book by Nicky Hager Publication date: October, 2011 Nicky Hager's main charge in Other People’s Wars is that New Zealand’s defence and foreign affairs establishment has developed a culture where some senior officers ‘wanted to obey the government only when they agreed with it’, and otherwise ‘quietly undermined’ its policies and decisions. They believed they could ‘go to war without telling the public most of what they did’—and Hager provides convincing evidence that, for most of the last decade, they have been successful. https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/359
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description Reviewed book by Nicky Hager Publication date: October, 2011 Nicky Hager's main charge in Other People’s Wars is that New Zealand’s defence and foreign affairs establishment has developed a culture where some senior officers ‘wanted to obey the government only when they agreed with it’, and otherwise ‘quietly undermined’ its policies and decisions. They believed they could ‘go to war without telling the public most of what they did’—and Hager provides convincing evidence that, for most of the last decade, they have been successful.
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