No analysis of modern warfare can be complete without an assessment of the role of the media. The rapid development of communications technologies during the 1990s linking different parts of the world closer together and bypassing the remit of nation states are examples of globalization. The media contribute to globalization through their roles in the changing global infrastructure, as channels of communication, and as messengers about the world that lies beyond our direct experience. The media occupy a unique position in society: they constitute an arena for different communicators, yet they are also actors in the very events being communicated.