Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War

Warheads reveals what goes on behind the closed doors of the US television networks, from the make-up rooms and TV studios of cable news to the E-ring conference rooms of the Pentagon. Written by one of the best-known members of television’s elite cadre of military analysts, or warheads’, Colonel Ken Allard’s hard-hitting and often hilarious narrative shows how he and his colleagues from MSNBC, CNN and Fox News covered the events of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the invasion of Iraq usually inhits’ of three minutes or less.

In his book, Allard also considers the tough issues that the warheads could seldom wedge into their hits: that technology is never the final answer in warfare.

Kenneth Allard, one of US television's most respected military analysts, rose from the ranks to become a colonel in the US Army, Dean of the National War College, and one of the nation’s leading soldier-scholars.