This important work, edited by an expert on terrorism, focuses on the 21st-century struggle for strategic influence and ways in which states can neutralize the role of new media in spreading terrorist propaganda. In an era where anyone can have access to the Internet or other media forms that make widespread communication easy, terrorists and insurgents can spread their messages with complete freedom, creating challenges for national security. Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in a ...
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This important work, edited by an expert on terrorism, focuses on the 21st-century struggle for strategic influence and ways in which states can neutralize the role of new media in spreading terrorist propaganda. In an era where anyone can have access to the Internet or other media forms that make widespread communication easy, terrorists and insurgents can spread their messages with complete freedom, creating challenges for national security. Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in a War of Ideas focuses on the core of the ongoing struggle for strategic influence and, particularly, how states can counter the role media and the Internet play in radicalizing new agents of terrorism. As the book makes clear, governments need to find ways to effectively confront non-state adversaries at all levels of the information domain and create an understanding of strategic communications within a broad range of technologies. The essays from the international group of authors who contributed to this work offer a deeper understanding of the ongoing struggle. Influence Warfare also provides a set of case studies that illustrate how the means and methods of strategic influence can impact a nation's security. Case studies
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 392 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Figures. Praeger Security International. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009012787 Type of material Book Main title Influence warfare: how terrorists and governments fight to shape perceptions in a war of ideas / edited by James J.F. Forest; foreword by Bruce Hoffman. Published/Created Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2009. Description xvii, 392 p. : ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780313347313 (hard copy: alk. paper) 031334731X (hard copy: alk. paper) LC classification HV6431. I4773 2009 Related names Forest, James J. F. LC Subjects War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Public opinion. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. Information warfare. Terrorism and mass media. Mass media and public opinion. Terrorism--Prevention. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-373) and index. Dewey class no. 363.325 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn290430050
