Malvinas Will be televised
War, military industries and the media in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21057/10.21057/repamv15n2.2021.36617Keywords:
Military Industries, Malvinas, Communication, Geopolitics, WarfareAbstract
The present paper aims to give an account of the links and the joint operation between the Military Industrial Complex and the traditional media system of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We will begin by investigating a concept of Military Industrial Complex that allows us to account for the creation of effects of truth, through the installation of strategic narratives. We will address the Malvinas War as a hinge point in the history of the media and British National Defense. We will analyze some of the instances of media-cultural production -through public opinion studies and media analysis-, and their impact on military spending and the development of war technologies.
As a first conclusion, we observe that the first information control methodologies and installation of “strategic narratives” began to be implemented in the Malvinas war, entering a new war-information paradigm. As a second conclusion, we note that from this moment on, a process of concentration and transnationalization of the British military industries begins, which deepens in the Major and Blair administrations, extending its incidence in the Defense system, to the characterization of threats and enemies. Finally, this new CIM will carry out the installation of new strategic narratives, such as the "Dangerous World" in order to project the power of the NATO countries outside their area of ”‹”‹influence, configuring a new field of intervention of global dimensions, centered on the geopolitics of the South Atlantic.
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