Document Type
Article
Abstract
George W. Bush declared that the war in Iraq was over in May 2003, yet the Coalition forces stayed on. What was the British military doing there from 2003 to 2009? The evidence given at the Chilcot Inquiry points to a role for the military involving politics and governance. This role is largely ignored by the television news media.
In this article I look at the coverage of the “Charge of the Knights” operation, launched by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to restore order in Basra on 25 March 2008, and consider how a purely military discourse contributed to a lack of understanding about the war, and to the silence about the military’s role as an occupier and hence to a lack of questioning about its responsibility and performance in Iraq.
Repository Citation
Harris, Janet. "Reporting War? The Charge of the Knights." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 4, 2011, pp. 1–16. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss4/12