> Control the media This is a big one I think. From what I've read, in Vietnam, you just needed to get letter from your local newspaper accrediting you as a jo

> Control the media This is a big one I think. From what I've read, in Vietnam, you just needed to get letter from your local newspaper accrediting you as a journalist, and you basically got a free ticket anywhere in Vietnam with the US military. Now it's a lot harder to get embedded as a journalist with military units.