Press is a part of war,so we can not view it partially or isolated.The reports about war appear in the early days of press.There is congenital paradox between press and war,but they are interdependent and utilized by each other.The war promotes the development of press ,it brings more material to press ,however,it also can become a part of war planning serving the war and national benefits.This paper make the detailed expatiation to the strategy of press and to the history of press in war time.Moreover ,the paper make it clear that press has been considered as the element of "third war" in entire war planning.Meantime,the paper questions the truality of reports in the war,emphasizes on the analysis of actrual effect of press,lyric style of reports and the further research of the phenomenon that war has become one of major attractive topics in mordern social press.
The paper also give some viewpoints about crisis of confidence in press.