[PDF] Dark Art Of Political Warfare A Primer eBook

Author : Hal Brands
Publisher :
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Information warfare
ISBN :

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The United States can apply lessons from Cold War political warfare—the employment of all means short of war to achieve national objectives—to modern competition with China and Russia. Political warfare offers diverse policy options that can either supplement or replace military action and can be applied to minimalist and maximalist and offensive and defensive strategies. Political warfare’s relatively low cost makes it an attractive option for policymakers and states operating under budget constraints. An understanding of political warfare is essential to succeed in the intellectual, as well as geopolitical, aspects of modern great-power competition.

Author : Thierry Balzacq
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192576623

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A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Author : Carnes Lord
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1996-06
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ISBN : 9780788130519

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Considers what the U.S. can do to overcome traditional American aversion to political warfare and how to be better competitors in the current political struggles that characterize international relations. Military and civilian analyses of past successes and failures present possibilities for improvement. Suggests how the U.S. can upgrade its performance in the political-psychological arena. Papers include: the psychological dimension in national strategy, political strategies for revolutionary war, twelve steps to reviving American PSYOP, and more. "The inherent strength of this volume lies in the expertise of its editors and contributors, most of whom participated in the Cold War's "war of ideas".

Author : Saul Alinsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307756890

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“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Author : Createspace Independent Pub
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
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ISBN : 9781981960958

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Understanding cyber operations in the 21st century is impossible without first understanding intelligence operations in the 20th century. Attributing and countering disinformation today is therefore also impossible without first understanding how the United States and its allies attributed and countered hundreds of active measures throughout the Cold War. Nobody summarized this dark art of disinformation better than Colonel Rolf Wagenbreth from the Stasi, who headed the Department X there. He said, "A powerful adversary can only be defeated through a sophisticated, methodical, careful, and shrewd effort to exploit even the smallest cracks within our enemies and within their elites." The tried and tested way of active measures is to use an adversary's existing weaknesses against himself, to drive wedges into preexisting cracks. The more polarized a society, the more vulnerable it is; and America in 2016, of course, was highly polarized, with lots of cracks to drive wedges into. But not all wedges; improved high-tech wedges that allowed the Kremlin's operatives to attack their target faster, more reactively, and at a far larger scale than ever before.

Author : Lucas Kello
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0300226292

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An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political interaction, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers non-state actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant experience with cyber phenomena, the conceptual apparatus to analyze, understand, and address their effects on international order remains primitive. Here, Lucas Kello adapts and applies international relations theory to create new ways of thinking about cyber strategy. Kello draws on a broad range of case studies, including the Estonian crisis, the Olympic Games operation against Iran, and the cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Synthesizing qualitative data from government documents, forensic reports of major incidents and interviews with senior officials from around the globe, this important work establishes new conceptual benchmarks to help security experts adapt strategy and policy to the unprecedented challenges of our times.