skygiants

I am glad you found the book interesting! I agree that it's far more broad than deep, not least because it felt like the author was really aiming to make up for his (self-admitted) neglect of the women's experience in his previous book about male war correspondents by giving as broad a sense of the ground as possible. Which is fine in itself but it does leave the reader wanting more.

of course it makes perfect sense that generals would package wars for the press the same way anybody does anything

There is a fascinating book I read a few years ago, Hotel Warriors, which is a case study in the how the military packages war for the press (in the case, the 1991 Gulf War) in an effort to obtain desired public perceptions. I appreciated how An Unladylike Profession showed a similarly interesting set of press junket examples, particularly in how the women attempted to subvert them!