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See you at the public diplomacy event at Heritage
On January 24, I’ll be speaking at the Heritage Foundation at noon today with Amy Zalman of the National War College, and Ariel Cohen and Dean Cheng of Heritage, on global public opinion as a force for change and how …
Huffington Post & CNBC ran paid Russian propaganda
The Huffington Post and CNBC ran paid propaganda placements of the Russian government, without informing their readers and viewers. ProPublica.org, a public interest journalism site, reports on November 16
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
How prison can help the political warrior
We mustn't always believe everything we read, and when bad guys with big ideas are released from prison, we should presume that they'll be causing trouble again soon. Especially
PW Class 8 – Totalitarian political warfare: Communism, Nazism, fascism & Gramsci
In this class we'll take a look at the main forms of totalitarian socialism - Communism, Naziism and Fascism - but will concentrate on the theory of the
Captured documents show how congressman & aides helped enemy
Attached are the documents captured by US troops in Grenada in October 1983, as in Class 4 of the Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare course. They are not









