Strategic Discourse/Discursive Strategy: The Representation of "Security Policy" in the Video Age

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Strategic discourse, the linguistic practices through which security policy is represented, is examined from the point of view of the modes of representation through which it is expressed at the national or “official” level. The concept of strategy is elaborated to include, first, the sense in which all discourse is strategic, second, the legitimation issues that arise when security policy is confounded with other policy issues, and third, the special textual strategies required to legitimate official versions of international events when films and videos of the events are shown on television. For purposes of illustration, there is a brief examination of both the Tonkin Gulf incident during the Vietnam War and the recent downing of two Libyan planes to compare the difference in textual strategies of the official discourse in the two cases.

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