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Study homeland security this summer with James Carafano
You’ve seen homeland security authority James Carafano many times on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC. How would you like to spend two evenings a week with him this summer? Now you can. Dr. Carafano is now a professor at the …
Latest Wikipedia contributions from my students
Take a look at my students' contributions to Wikipedia this semester! They covered a lot of material in the fields of propaganda, public diplomacy, political warfare, and information
Getting the word out: Fighting for a global public opinion advantage
The Heritage Foundation sponsored a great talk on January 24, in which we discussed the international public opinion battlespace and how to operate within it. Helle Dale was our
My spring 2013 courses: Public diplomacy & political warfare, plus information warfare
There are still a few slots left in my spring 2013 courses at the Institute of World Politics. Offered are Information Operations and Information Warfare (IWP 618) on
BBC and CNN air faked Hamas injury report
Both the BBC and CNN aired staged Hamas footage of a Palestinian man who faked an injury from an Israeli counterattack, and whom collaborators whisked away as if
PW Class 12 – Islam, Islamism and cultural warfare
Is there a difference between Islam, the religion, and Islamism, the range of political ideologies based on the religion? Should the US make a distinction for its own
PW Class 11 – How to defeat a superpower: The asymmetrical warfare of North Vietnam and El Salvador’s FMLN insurgency
With Soviet support, the North Vietnamese government devised an inexpensive but brilliant political warfare campaign to force the United States to defeat itself and abandon its South Vietnamese
PW Class 10 – US psychological strategy: The Truman and Eisenhower offensives
Following World War II, the United States developed a national psychological strategy to wage ideological warfare against the Soviet Union. This class emphasizes American psychological strategy under Presidents
When is the truth deception? When is deception the truth?
This question came up in my foreign propaganda class: When is the truth deception, and when can deception be the truth? Sometimes metaphors can be the best means of
Alinsky, jailed political warriors, and Guantanamo
Jail time is valuable for a busy and distracted political warrior to rest, organize his thoughts, and develop his philosophy. Here's what Saul Alinsky has to say about










