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The expression “fog of war” refers to the military confusion on a battlefield during times of war. There are other kinds of “fog of war” such as confusion among the civilian populations during wartime who are thrown out of their familiar lives into unknown situations. There is yet another type of “fog of war” that occurs when nations deploy propaganda that they may believe and try to get their opponents to believe.
In our own times there is war of words and images happening on mass media and communications through radio, television, the Internet and social media. There is the fog of war in diplomacy where nations and the media blabber away trying to blind their opponents and push their own biased point of view on the world that goes on in the United Nations, the European Union and other international bodies. Television and the Internet rely a lot on colorful moving images that sway the emotions but often have no connection to actual historical facts and truths.