By the Editor: At a tangent to the normal course of our discourse, the author here shows how art was, and is, a powerful means of shaping the military narrative. He focuses on Leni Riefenstahl who was commissioned to direct several Nazi propaganda films prior to the Second World War. ln doing so he deconstructs her .filmsand compares with the like of ISIS propaganda today. Unless one attempts to pick out and question the messaging, it is too easy to let what one sees on .ftlm become received wisdom. And this isn’t }ust about low budget and obscure productions. For example, Operation Red…
