Creating Chaos : Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hancock, Larry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Political violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : OR Books, LLC, 2018.

Summary:

Creating Chaos explores that dark side of statecraft, the covert use of political warfare in international relations - from its early practices during the Great Game between the British and Russian empires, through the Cold War era of ideological confrontation and forward into the hybrid political warfare of the 21st Century.Creating Chaos presents and illustrates the full body of covert and deniable political warfare practices, tracing their historical development and their use by both America and Russia throughout the Cold War and beyond. Using the most current information available, Hancock, a "veteran national security journalist" (Publishers Weekly) examines the evolution of political warfare tools and tactics in the era of the global Internet and ubiquitous social media, evaluating their effectiveness and illustrating the rapidly increasing levels of risk associated with these new and untested cyberwarfare tools.Virtually no books have studied actual political warfare beyond the Cold War, and only a handful have provided any insights into the new and rapidly evolving practices of the Russian Federation or of the political warfare aspect of NGOs or other surrogate actors.A companion volume toShadow Warfare: The History of America's Undeclared Wars,Creating Chaos introduces the nature and history of political action practices, exploring a number of formerly secret American and Russian hybrid warfare and active measures projects in detail. With that background for context, it then extends those practices into the twenty-first century and contemporary events, evaluating wellestablished practices as they are being used with the newest tools of the global Internet and social media. It demonstrates the exponential increase in their effectiveness--and the equally exponential risk and consequences involved.

Contents:

Cover Page

Creating Chaos

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: The Games of Queens, Kings, and Presidents

Chapter Two: Going Dark

Chapter Three: Containment

Chapter Four: Political Action

Chapter Five: Regime Change

Chapter Six: Hybrid Warfare

Chapter Seven: Active Measures

Chapter Eight: Privatization

Chapter Nine: Role Reversals

Chapter Ten: Sovereignty Issues

Chapter Eleven: Pushing Back

Chapter Twelve: Beachheads

Chapter Thirteen: Shaping

Chapter Fourteen: Fragmentation

Chapter Fifteen: Consequences

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ISBN:

9781944869885

1944869883

OCLC:

1507700170