The Pentagon had long predicted that the confrontation with Iraq would be unlike any other war in history. That claim has been proved correct, although not for the reasons the US top brass may have been thinking of.
For the first time, the public back home has had access to round-the-clock reports of every cough and spit of the military campaign, much of it supplied by the 750-strong army of correspondents embedded with US and British military units in the thick of the action.
From live television pictures of battles through up-to-the-minute internet headlines to acres of newspaper coverage, this has become the fastest, most extensively scrutinsed war ever.
But in such a rapidly changing environment, the sheer volume of information has at times made it almost impossible to establish what is true and, just as importantly, how that affects the big picture. The problems of sorting out fact from fiction and claim from counterclaim have been compounded by the unpredictable nature of the war.
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