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title="Envelopment">Envelopment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tactical_formation" title="Tactical formation">Formation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">Guerrilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_tactics" title="Naval tactics">Naval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shock_and_awe" title="Shock and awe">Rapid dominance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encirclement" title="Encirclement">Encirclement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Investment_(military)" title="Investment (military)">Investment</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">Siege</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swarming_(military)" title="Swarming (military)">Swarm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Screening_(tactical)" title="Screening (tactical)">Screen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tactical_objective" title="Tactical objective">Tactical objective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturation_attack" title="Saturation attack">Target saturation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trench_warfare" title="Trench warfare">Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_(military)" title="Withdrawal (military)">Withdrawal</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Operational_level_of_war" title="Operational level of war">Operational</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_operation" title="Military operation">Military operation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_operations" title="Special operations">Special</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operations_research" title="Operations research">Operations research</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blitzkrieg" title="Blitzkrieg">Blitzkrieg</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expeditionary_warfare" title="Expeditionary warfare">Expeditionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_operation" title="Deep operation">Deep operation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maneuver_warfare" title="Maneuver warfare">Maneuver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operational_manoeuvre_group" title="Operational manoeuvre group">Operational manoeuvre group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_(military)" title="Raid (military)">Raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covert_operation" title="Covert operation">Covert</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_strategy" title="Military strategy">Strategy</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_strategies_and_concepts" title="List of military strategies and concepts">List of military strategies and concepts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_campaign" title="Military campaign">Military campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-access/area_denial" title="Anti-access/area denial">Anti-access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attrition_warfare" title="Attrition warfare">Attrition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commerce_raiding" title="Commerce raiding">Commerce raiding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counter-offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-offensive">Counter-offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culminating_point" title="Culminating point">Culminating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defence_in_depth" title="Defence in depth">Defence in depth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabian_strategy" title="Fabian strategy">Fabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empty_Fort_Strategy" title="Empty Fort Strategy">Empty fort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosaic_Warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosaic Warfare">Mosaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_deception" title="Military deception">Deception</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_defence" title="Strategic defence">Defensive</a></li> 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title="Blockade">Blockade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broken-backed_war_theory" title="Broken-backed war theory">Broken-backed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">Class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_war_(general_term)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold war (general term)">Cold war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_war" title="Colonial war">Colonial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest" title="Conquest">Conquest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Containment" title="Containment">Containment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divide_and_rule" title="Divide and rule">Divide and conquer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_warfare" title="Economic warfare">Economic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endemic_warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Endemic warfare">Endemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fleet_in_being" title="Fleet in being">Fleet in being</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irregular_warfare" title="Irregular warfare">Irregular</a></li> <li><a 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title="Military technology">Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theater_(warfare)" title="Theater (warfare)">Theater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_war" title="Total war">Total war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_war" title="World war">World war</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_administration" title="Military administration">Administrative</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_branch" title="Military branch">Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_policy" title="Military policy">Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staff_(military)" title="Staff (military)">Staff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_education_and_training" title="Military education and training">Training</a></li> <li><a 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abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:War" title="Template:War"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:War" title="Template talk:War"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:War" title="Special:EditPage/Template:War"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Political warfare</b> is the use of hostile political means to compel an opponent to do one's will. The term political describes the calculated interaction between a government and a target audience, including another state's government, military, and/or general population. Governments use a variety of techniques to coerce certain actions, thereby gaining relative advantage over an opponent. The techniques include <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Psychological_operations" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological operations">psychological operations</a> ("PsyOps"), which service national and military objectives respectively. Propaganda has many aspects and a hostile and coercive political purpose. Psychological operations are for strategic and tactical military objectives and may be intended for hostile military and civilian populations.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Political warfare's coercive nature leads to weakening or destroying an opponent's political, social, or societal will, and forcing a course of action favorable to a state's interest. Political war may be combined with violence, <a href="/wiki/Economic_pressure" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic pressure">economic pressure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Subversion" title="Subversion">subversion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy">diplomacy</a>, but its chief aspect is "the use of words, images and ideas".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The creation, deployment, and continuation of these coercive methods are a function of statecraft for nations and serve as a potential substitute for more direct military action.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For instance, methods like economic sanctions or embargoes are intended to inflict the necessary economic damage to force political change. The utilized methods and techniques in political war depend on the state's political vision and composition. Conduct will differ according to whether the state is totalitarian, authoritarian, or democratic.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ultimate goal of political warfare is to alter an opponent's opinions and actions in favour of one state's interests without utilizing military power. This type of organized persuasion or coercion also has the practical purpose of saving lives through eschewing the use of violence in order to further political goals. Thus, political warfare also involves "the art of heartening friends and disheartening enemies, of gaining help for one's cause and causing the abandonment of the enemies'".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 151">: 151 </span></sup> Generally, political warfare is distinguished by its hostile intent and through potential escalation; but the loss of life is an accepted consequence. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tools">Tools</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Tools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peaceful">Peaceful</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Peaceful"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Political warfare utilizes all instruments short of war available to a nation to achieve its national objectives. The best tool of political warfare is "effective policy forcefully explained",<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or more directly, "overt policy forcefully backed".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But political warfare is used, as one leading thinker on the topic has explained, "when public relations statements and gentle, <a href="/wiki/Public_diplomacy" title="Public diplomacy">public diplomacy</a>-style persuasion—the policies of '<a href="/wiki/Soft_power" title="Soft power">soft power</a>'—fail to win the needed sentiments and actions" around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The major way political warfare is waged is through <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>. The essence of these operations can be either overt or covert. <b><a href="/wiki/White_propaganda" title="White propaganda">White propaganda</a></b> is <i>maximally</i> overt: there is attribution to a promoter; the attributed promoter and the actual promoter are one and the same; and no attempt is made to hide the fact that a viewpoint or "line" is being promoted. Most television advertisements are white propaganda turned to commercial ends. <b>Grey propaganda</b> ranges in overtness from maximal to a slightly lesser degree: as in white propaganda, there is honest attribution to a source; but it differs from white propaganda by being less forthright either about the link between the source and the line being promoted or about its status as propaganda in the first place. Grey propaganda has alternatively been defined as the "semiofficial amplification of a government's voice";<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Guerilla_advertising" class="mw-redirect" title="Guerilla advertising">guerilla advertising</a> uses the tools of grey propaganda to sell products and services, while in public service, examples include <a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Free Europe">Radio Free Europe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radio_Liberty" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Liberty">Radio Liberty</a> (established during <a href="/wiki/Cold_War_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold War I">Cold War I</a>). <b><a href="/wiki/Black_propaganda" title="Black propaganda">Black propaganda</a></b> is covert: this may be limited to the anonymous dissemination of internally consistent talking points (differing from white propaganda only in its lack of credited authorship), but it may also be the impersonation of a widely trusted organization (through the use of its branding, corporate style guide, distinctive turns of phrase, etc.) under a false flag, or a strategy as complex as the use of a <a href="/wiki/Botnet" title="Botnet">botnet</a> to inundate a <a href="/wiki/Social_network" title="Social network">social network</a> with self-contradictory <a href="/wiki/Disinformation" title="Disinformation">disinformation</a> as if through a <a href="/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood" title="Firehose of falsehood">firehose of falsehood</a>, amplifying the botnet's posts with so-called Likes and Retweets, and frustrating genuine users' bona fide searches for pertinent information by diminishing the <a href="/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio" title="Signal-to-noise ratio">signal-to-noise ratio</a>. What unifies these disparate strategies implementing black propaganda is that, in all cases, it "appears to come from a disinterested source when in fact it does not".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are channels which can be used to transmit propaganda. Sophisticated use of technology allows an organization to disseminate information to a vast number of people. The most basic channel is the spoken word. This can include live speeches or radio and television broadcasts. Overt or covert radio broadcasting can be an especially useful tool.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (November 2011)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The printed word is also very powerful, including pamphlets, leaflets, books, magazines, political cartoons, and planted newspaper articles (clandestine or otherwise). Subversion, agents of influence, spies, journalists, and "<a href="/wiki/Useful_idiot" title="Useful idiot">useful idiots</a>" can all be used as powerful tools in political warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aggressive">Aggressive</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aggressive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg/220px-EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="374" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg/330px-EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg/440px-EasternBloc_BorderChange38-48.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="680" /></a><figcaption>Soviet expansion: Formation of the Eastern Bloc</figcaption></figure> <p>Political warfare also includes aggressive activities by one actor to offensively gain relative advantage or control over another. Between nation states, it can end in the seizure of power or in the open assimilation of the victimized state into the political system or power complex of the aggressor. This aggressor-victim relationship has also been seen between rivals within a state and may involve tactics like <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a>, paramilitary activity, <a href="/wiki/Sabotage" title="Sabotage">sabotage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a>, <a href="/wiki/Insurgency" title="Insurgency">insurgency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolution</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerrilla warfare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">civil war</a>. </p> <ul><li><b>Foreign infiltration or liberation</b> occurs when a government is overthrown by foreign military or diplomatic intervention, or through covert means. The campaign's ultimate purpose is to gain control over another nation's political and social structure. The campaign could be led by the aggressor's national forces or by a political faction favorable to the aggressor within the other state. <a href="/wiki/Paul_W._Blackstock" title="Paul W. Blackstock">Paul W. Blackstock</a> describes three stages involved in the extension of control by the aggressor over the victim:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ol><li><b>Penetration or infiltration:</b> the deliberate infiltration of political and social groups within a victim state by the aggressor with the ultimate purpose of extending influence and control. The aggressor conceals its endgame, which goes beyond the normal influential nature of diplomacy and involves espionage.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Forced disintegration or atomization:</b> "is the breakdown of the political and social structure of the victim until the fabric of national morale disintegrates and the state is unable to resist further intervention". The aggressor may exploit the inevitable internal tensions between political, class, ethnic, religious, racial, and other groups.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This concept is a similar strategy to 'divide and conquer'.</li> <li><b>Subversion and defection:</b> Subversion is the "undermining or detachment of the loyalties of significant political and social groups within the victimized state, and their transference to the political or ideological causes of the aggressor".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In lieu of total and direct transference, the aggressor may accept intermediate states that still meets its objectives, such as the favor of politically significant individuals. Furthermore, the formation of a counter-elite, made up of influential individuals and key leaders, within the victim state establishes the legitimacy and permanency of a new regime. Defection is the transference of allegiance of key individuals and leaders to the aggressor's camp. The individual could relocate or stay-in-place in the victim country, continually influencing local issues and events in the aggressor's favor. Defectors also provide insider information to the aggressor.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">Coup d'état</a></b> is the overthrowing of a government through the infiltration of the political, military, and social groups by a small segment of the state apparatus. The small segment exists within the state and targets the critical political levers of power within a government to neutralize opposition to the coup and post-coup governing force. Several pre-existing factors are necessary for a coup:<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> political participation being limited to a small portion of the population, independence from foreign power influence and control, and power and decision-making authority concentrated within a political center and not diffused between regional authorities, businesses, or other groups.</li></ul> <p>A coup utilizes political resources to gain support within the existing state and neutralize or immobilize those who are capable of rallying against the coup. A successful coup occurs rapidly and after taking over the government, stabilizes the situation by controlling communications and mobility. Furthermore, a new government must gain acceptance from the public and military and administrative structures, by reducing the sense of insecurity. Ultimately, the new government will seek legitimacy in the eyes of its own people as well as seek foreign recognition.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The coup d'état can be led by national forces or involve foreign influence, similar to foreign liberation or infiltration.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>Paramilitary Operations:</b> transitional political warfare ranging from small-scale use of violence with primitive organizational structure (e.g. sabotage) to full-scale conventional war. The transition and escalation includes a series of stages and depends on tactical and strategic objectives. Paramilitary activities include infiltration and subversion as well as small group operations, insurrection, and civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Insurgency" title="Insurgency">Insurgency</a>:</b> an organized, protracted political warfare tool designed to weaken the control and eliminate the legitimacy of an established government, occupying power, or other political authority.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An insurgency is an internal conflict, and the primary struggle is to mobilize local populations for political control and gain popular support towards the insurgents' cause.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Insurgencies include political and military objectives, with the end goal of establishing a legitimate, rival state structure.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Insurgencies are unconventional military conflicts which incorporate a variety of methods, ranging from coercive tools like intimidation and assassination, to political tools like propaganda and social services. An insurgency's approaches and objectives could involve perpetual disorder and violence demonstrating the government's inability to provide security for the populace, weakening the government and killing or intimidating any effective opposition against the government, intimidating the population and discouraging its participation in – or support for – political or legal processes, controlling or intimidating police and military forces (which limits their ability to respond to insurgent attacks) or by creating government repression by provoking over-reactions by security or military forces.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_antiquity">In antiquity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In antiquity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:As-Constantine-XR_RIC_vII_019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/As-Constantine-XR_RIC_vII_019.jpg/300px-As-Constantine-XR_RIC_vII_019.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/As-Constantine-XR_RIC_vII_019.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="382" data-file-height="185" /></a><figcaption>A coin of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 337 CE</span>) showing a depiction of his labarum spearing a serpent</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg/220px-Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg/330px-Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg/440px-Tetradrachm_Ptolemaeus_I_obverse_CdM_Paris_FGM2157.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="1700" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> silver <a href="/wiki/Tetradrachm" title="Tetradrachm">tetradrachm</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Simple_Labarum2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Simple_Labarum2.svg/220px-Simple_Labarum2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Simple_Labarum2.svg/330px-Simple_Labarum2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Simple_Labarum2.svg/440px-Simple_Labarum2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="133" data-file-height="176" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Chi-Rho" class="mw-redirect" title="Chi-Rho">Chi-Rho</a> symbol</figcaption></figure> <p>The history of political warfare can be traced to antiquity. The Chinese general and strategist <a href="/wiki/Sun_Tzu" title="Sun Tzu">Sun Tzu</a> captures its essence in the ancient Chinese military strategy book, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Art_of_War" title="The Art of War">The Art of War</a></i>: "So to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence; the highest excellence is to subdue the enemy's army without fighting at all...The expert in using the military subdues the enemy's forces without going to battle, takes the enemy's walled cities without launching an attack, and crushes the enemy's state without protracted war."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are abundant examples of political warfare in antiquity. In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greece</a>, a famous example is that of the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_Horse" title="Trojan Horse">Trojan Horse</a>, which used deception for tactical military objectives. Propaganda was commonly utilized, including Greek rhetoric and theatre which used words and images to influence populations throughout the Hellenic world. This practice has left a lasting legacy of speech as a mechanism of political power, greater than force in solving disputes and inducing submission.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this same period, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> used coinage imprinted with his own image, indirectly forcing conquered nations to accept his legitimacy as national ruler and to unite disparate nations together under his dominion.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Ancient Rome</a> utilized similar political warfare as the Greeks including rhetoric, as displayed by Cicero; and art, as seen in coinage, statues, architecture, engineering, and mosaics. All of these elements were intended to portray Rome's imperial dominance over its subject nations and the superior nature of Roman society.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following a religious vision, the emperor <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine I</a> in 330 CE bound the Roman state to the universal <a href="/wiki/Christian_Church" title="Christian Church">Christian Church</a>. In doing so, he linked "religious commitment with imperial ambition" that proved to be quite successful and powerful.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One long-lasting symbol of this is the <a href="/wiki/Chi_Rho" title="Chi Rho">Chi Rho</a>, which forms the first two letters of the Greeks' name for <a href="/wiki/Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Christ">Christ</a>. This symbol was used for over one thousand years by Constantine's successors as a symbol of "imperial majesty and divine authority"<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and still is a powerful symbol within <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_country">By country</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: By country"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="China">China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Chinese_information_operations_and_information_warfare" title="Chinese information operations and information warfare">Chinese information operations and information warfare</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Front_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="United Front (China)">United Front (China)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare" title="Unrestricted Warfare">Unrestricted Warfare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Three_warfares" title="Three warfares">Three warfares</a></div> <p>China's political leaders during this century have had to first create a nation before they could proceed to contend with other national actors in the international arena. Consequently, insofar as both the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kuomintang" title="Kuomintang">Kuomintang</a> subscribed to a political warfare concept during their formative years of struggle, the concept was as much concerned with creating national identity and defeating domestic adversaries as it was with China's ability to compete in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the founding of the PRC in 1949 they have centered much of their political warfare efforts within the <a href="/wiki/United_Front_Work_Department" title="United Front Work Department">United Front Work Department</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Diplomat_December_2019_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diplomat_December_2019-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Chinese conception of political warfare includes the "<a href="/wiki/Three_warfares" title="Three warfares">three warfares</a>" of public opinion warfare, <a href="/wiki/Psychological_warfare" title="Psychological warfare">psychological warfare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lawfare" title="Lawfare">legal warfare</a>, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Political warfare encompasses influence operations such as the doctrine of <a href="/wiki/China%27s_peaceful_rise" title="China's peaceful rise">China's peaceful rise</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Taiwan remains a major target of PRC political warfare efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> China's political warfare campaign aims to isolate Taiwan from the international community and interfere in Taiwan's democratic system and institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-Diplomat_December_2019_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diplomat_December_2019-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> India has also become a target of increasing importance for PRC influence operations.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Defense_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli Defense Force">Israeli Defense Force</a> was an early adopter of social media platforms to promote a positive image about itself by posting <a href="/wiki/Thirst_trap" title="Thirst trap">sexy images of female Israeli soldiers with weapons</a>, <a href="/wiki/ASMR" title="ASMR">ASMR</a> media involving firearms, as well as more traditional content about humanitarianism and national glory. It operates multiple accounts that have a large following and actively recruits <a href="/wiki/Internet_celebrity" title="Internet celebrity">influencers</a> on <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telegram_(software)" title="Telegram (software)">Telegram</a>, <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a>, <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>. The IDF's online presence in English is about twice as large as its activity in Hebrew and mainly targets young <a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">Jewish people in the United States</a>. Besides positive self-portrayals, other objectives included shaping the narrative during its media blockade of the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)" title="Gaza War (2008–2009)">Gaza War (2008–2009)</a>, preparing information ahead IDF operations in order to be the first one out with the desired story, and quickly responding to unexpected incidents.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soviet_Union_and_Russia">Soviet Union and Russia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Soviet Union and Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation INFEKTION">Operation INFEKTION</a> and <a href="/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine">Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg/220px-Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg/330px-Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg/440px-Szczecin_Pomnik_Wdziecznosci_fragment.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="793" /></a><figcaption> Soldiers’ Monument located in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Liberty_Square_(Poland)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Liberty Square (Poland) (page does not exist)">Liberty Square</a>, <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82oc%C5%82awek" title="Włocławek">Włocławek</a>, Poland. The monument is of a Red Army soldier and Polish peasant, holding hands. The Soviet Union used Red Army monuments in Soviet occupied countries as a propaganda tool.</figcaption></figure> <p>Throughout the Cold War, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> was committed to political warfare on classic totalitarian lines and continued to utilize propaganda towards internal and external audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "<a href="/wiki/Active_measures" title="Active measures">Active measures</a>" (Russian: Активные мероприятия) was a Russian term to describe its political warfare activities both at home and abroad in support of Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Soviet efforts took many forms, ranging from propaganda, forgeries, and general disinformation to assassinations. The measures aimed to damage the enemy's image, create confusion, mould public opinion, and to exploit existing strains in international relations.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Soviet Union dedicated vast resources and attention to these active measures, believing that "mass production of active measures would have a significant cumulative effect over a period of several decades".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soviet active measures were notorious for targeting intended audience's public attitudes, to include prejudices, beliefs, and suspicions deeply rooted in the local history. Soviet campaigns fed disinformation that was psychologically consistent with the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples of Soviet active measures include: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Operation_Trust" title="Operation Trust">Operation Trust</a></b>: was a counterintelligence operation conducted by Soviet intelligence against domestic and foreign adversaries. The operation, which ran from 1921 to 1929, set up a fake anti-Bolshevik underground organization, "Monarchist Union of Central Russia", MUCR (Монархическое объединение Центральной России, МОЦР), which claimed to plan a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet government. The Trust aimed to create the view that communism was over in Russia and the Soviet Union would abandon its revolutionary ways. Western intelligence services supported the fake anti-Bolshevik dissidents who provided false intelligence reports. The operation's purpose was to identify real dissidents and anti-Bolsheviks, internally and abroad. The operation resulted in the arrests and executions of Russian exile leaders and the general demoralization of anti-Soviet efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The "Rumor" Campaign</b>: In October 1985, a Soviet weekly <i>Literaturnaya Gazeta</i> drew attention to a story in an obscure Indian paper, <i>The Patriot</i>, which alleged that the U.S. government engineered the AIDS virus during biological warfare research in the U.S., and that it was being spread throughout the world by U.S. servicemen who had been used as guinea pigs for the experiment.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story was broadcast by Moscow's Radio Peace and Progress in English and Turkish broadcasts to Asian countries, some of which had important U.S. military bases. The "Rumor" campaign was highly effective in the 1980s and continues to resurface today throughout the world.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Communist strategy and tactics continually focused on revolutionary objectives, "for them the real war is the political warfare waged daily under the guise of peace".<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the purpose of which is to "disorient and disarm the opposition...to induce the desire to surrender in opposing peoples...to corrode the entire moral, political, and economic infrastructure of a nation".<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lenin's mastery of "politics and struggle", remained objectives for the Soviet Union and other global communist regimes, such as the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Soviet_political_warfare_in_Afghanistan">Soviet political warfare in Afghanistan</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Soviet political warfare in Afghanistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Soviet Union remains a comprehensive example of an aggressive nation which expanded its empire through covert infiltration and direct military involvement.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, the Soviet Union believed European economies would disintegrate, leaving social and economic chaos and allowing for Soviet expansion into new territories. The Soviets quickly deployed organizational weapons such as non-political front groups, sponsored 'spontaneous' mass appeals, and puppet politicians. While many of these countries' political and social structures were in post-war disarray, the Soviet Union's proxy communist parties were well-organized and able to take control of these weak, newly formed Eastern European governments.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, the clandestine operations of the Soviet intelligence services and the occupying forces of the Soviet military further infiltrated the political and social spheres of the new satellites.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Conversely, in 1979, the Soviet Union was unable to successfully penetrate the Afghan society after supporting a coup which brought a new Marxist government to power. While Soviet units were already in Kabul, Afghanistan at the time of the coup, additional Soviet troops arrived to reinforce the units and seize important provincial cities, bringing the total of Soviet troops inside Afghanistan to 125,000–140,000. The Soviets were unprepared for the Afghan resistance which included classic guerrilla tactics with foreign support. In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan, having been unable to infiltrate the Afghan society or immobilize the resistance.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taiwan">Taiwan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Taiwan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg/220px-ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg/330px-ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg/440px-ROC_Political_Warfare_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="401" data-file-height="208" /></a><figcaption>Logo of political warfare in Taiwan</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Republic_of_China" title="Government of the Republic of China">Republic of China Government</a> in <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> recognized that its Communist adversary astutely employed political warfare to capitalize upon Kuomintang weaknesses over the years since <a href="/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" title="Sun Yat-sen">Sun Yat-sen</a> first mounted his revolution in the 1920s, and <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a>'s regime had come to embrace a political warfare philosophy as both a defensive necessity and as the best foundation for consolidating its power in hope of their optimistic goal of "retaking the mainland". Both the Nationalist and Communist Chinese political warfare doctrines stem from the same historical antecedents at the <a href="/wiki/Whampoa_Military_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Whampoa Military Academy">Whampoa Military Academy</a> in 1924 under Soviet tutelage.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Nationalist Chinese experience with political warfare can be treated in a much more tangible way than merely tracing doctrinal development. In the Taiwan of the 1970s, the concept was virtually synonymous with the <a href="/wiki/Fu_Hsing_Kang_College" title="Fu Hsing Kang College">General Political Warfare Department</a> of the Ministry of National Defense, which authored political doctrine and was the culmination of a series of organizational manifestations of its application.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 21st century political warfare is primarily the responsibility of the <a href="/wiki/Political_Warfare_Bureau" title="Political Warfare Bureau">Political Warfare Bureau</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Blanchette_et_al_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blanchette_et_al-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Creation_of_political_warfare_capacity">Creation of political warfare capacity</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Creation of political warfare capacity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/American_foreign_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="American foreign policy">American foreign policy</a> demonstrates a tendency to move towards political warfare in times of tension and perceived threat, and toward public diplomacy in times of improved relations and peace. American use of political warfare depends on its central political vision of the world and its subsequent foreign policy objectives.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After World War II, the threat of Soviet expansion brought two new aims for American political warfare: </p> <ol><li>To restore Western Europe through military, economic, and political support</li> <li>To weaken the Soviet hold on Eastern Europe through propaganda<sup id="cite_ref-:1_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <p>President <a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> established a government political warfare capability in the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947" title="National Security Act of 1947">National Security Act of 1947</a>. The act created the <a href="/wiki/U.S._National_Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. National Security Council">U.S. National Security Council</a>, which became the infrastructure necessary to apply military power to political purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Containment_policy">Containment policy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Containment policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Truman Doctrine was the post-WWII basis for American political warfare operations on which the United States government went further to formulate an active, defensive strategy to contain the Soviet threat.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 4 May 1948, <a href="/wiki/George_F._Kennan" title="George F. Kennan">George F. Kennan</a>, the father of the <a href="/wiki/Containment_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Containment policy">containment policy</a>, wrote the Policy Planning Staff Memorandum titled "The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare". This <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> (NSC) memo established a directorate of political warfare operations, under the control of the NSC, known as the Consultative (or Evaluation) Board of the National Security Council. This directorate fell under the authority of the Secretary of State, while the Board had complete authority over covert political operations. It recognized political warfare as one instrument in the United States' grand strategy. Kennan defined 'political warfare' as "the employment of all means at a nation's command, short of war, to achieve its national objectives. Such actions are both overt and covert. They range from such overt actions as political alliances, economic measures (such as ERP – the Marshall Plan), and 'white' propaganda to such covert operations as clandestine support of 'friendly' foreign elements, 'black' psychological warfare and even encouragement of underground resistance in hostile states."<br /><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The memo further defined four projects that were activated by the Board to combat growing Communist influence abroad, including: </p> <ul><li><b>Liberation Committees:</b> to encourage the formation of a public American organization which will sponsor selected political refugee committees to give support and guidance to national movements gestating in the Soviet World;</li> <li><b>Support of indigenous anti-communist elements:</b> within threatened countries of the free world, to include covertly using private intermediaries;</li> <li><b>Underground activities behind the Iron Curtain</b></li> <li><b>Preventive direct action in free countries:</b> only in cases of dire necessity. This covert operation involved: control over anti-sabotage activities in the Venezuelan oil fields, American sabotage of Near Eastern oil installations on the verge of Soviet capture, and designation of key individuals threatened by the Kremlin who should be protected or removed elsewhere.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cold_War_era">Cold War era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Cold War era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg/220px-RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="86" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg/330px-RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg/440px-RFE_logoFC_wiki.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1184" data-file-height="463" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">RFE/RL</a> logo</figcaption></figure> <p>The United States used gray and black propaganda research, broadcasting, and print media operations during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> to achieve its political warfare goals. These operations were conducted against Eastern European targets from Western Europe by two public-private organizations supported partly by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> and the NSC, and partly by private corporations. These organizations were Free Europe, which was launched in 1941 and targeted Eastern Europe, and the American Committee for Liberation (AmComLib) created in 1951 to broadcast information into Soviet Russia. Both were renamed shortly thereafter and combined as <a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</a> (RFE/RL).<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many RFE/RL recruits came either from European emigrants families who were strongly anti-Communist or from US government agencies, most notably from CIA. Officially, "the US government denied any responsibility for the radios and took care to conceal the channels of funding, personnel recruitment, and policy influence. Obviously, the major support was American, but it was plausibly not official American and it could be excluded from diplomatic intercourse and international legal complication."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> RFE/RL was considered to be a gray operation until its existence was publicly acknowledged by "activists" in the United States during the late 1960s. The goal of the radios was to present the truth to suppressed peoples behind the Iron Curtain "to aid in rebuilding a lively and diversified intellectual life in Europe which could ... defeat Soviet ... incursions on their freedom".<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, <a href="/wiki/Voice_of_America" title="Voice of America">Voice of America</a> (VOA) started broadcasting to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> citizens in 1947 under the pretext of countering "more harmful instances of <a href="/wiki/Soviet_propaganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet propaganda">Soviet propaganda</a> directed against American leaders and policies" on the part of the internal Soviet Russian-language media.<sup id="cite_ref-whitton_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whitton-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Soviet Union responded by initiating electronic <a href="/wiki/Radio_jamming" title="Radio jamming">jamming</a> of VOA broadcasts on April 24, 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-whitton_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whitton-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the fall of 1950 a group of scholars including physicists, historians and psychologists from <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> and <a href="/wiki/RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation">RAND Corporation</a> undertook a research study of <a href="/wiki/Psychological_warfare" title="Psychological warfare">psychological warfare</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of State">Department of State</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Project_Troy" title="Project Troy">Project Troy</a> Report to the Secretary of State</i>, presented to Secretary of State on 1 February 1951, made various proposals for political warfare, including possible methods of minimizing the effects of Soviet jamming on the Voice of America broadcasts.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It can be assumed that the Truman administration tried to implement plans established by the Project Troy in the project <i>Overload and Delay</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The purpose of the latter was to break the <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinist</a> system by increasing the number of input points in the system and by creating complex and unpredictable situations requiring action.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An overt, non-governmental form of political warfare during the Cold War emerged after <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">President Ronald Reagan's</a> 8 June 1982 speech to the British Parliament. In his speech, Reagan appealed for a "global crusade for democracy"<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as a result, the <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy" title="National Endowment for Democracy">National Endowment for Democracy</a> (NED) was created in December 1983. The NED was a <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organization</a> (NGO) based on four fundamental foundations: </p> <ul><li>The National Democratic Institute</li> <li>The National Republican Institute to dispense funds and training to politicians and political parties;</li> <li>The Center for International Private Enterprise to provide training, funding and networking opportunities for business associations;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93CIO" class="mw-redirect" title="AFL–CIO">AFL–CIO</a> to assist foreign trade unions.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The NED "funded programs in support of candidates acceptable to the US in elections in Grenada, Panama, El Salvador, and Guatemala throughout 1984 and 1985 in order to prevent communist victories, and create stable pro-US governments".<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_66-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also active in Europe, funding groups to carry promote pro-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (<a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>) propaganda in Britain, as well as a "right wing French student organisation ... linked to fascist paramilitaries". Other notable efforts included anti-Sandinista propaganda and opposition efforts in Nicaragua as well as anti-Communist propaganda and opposition efforts in support of the Solidarity movement in Poland between 1984 and 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_66-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a 1991 interview in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> with one of the creators of the NED, <a href="/wiki/Allen_Weinstein" title="Allen Weinstein">Allen Weinstein</a>, "a lot of what we (NED) do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="21st_century">21st century</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Cuba">Cuba</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Cuba"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 2010 to 2012, the United States operated <a href="/wiki/ZunZuneo" title="ZunZuneo">ZunZuneo</a>, a social media service similar to <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, in an attempt to instigate uprisings against the Cuban government in the long run. The program was initiated and overseen by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development" title="United States Agency for International Development">United States Agency for International Development</a>, but its involvement was concealed behind international <a href="/wiki/Front_organization" title="Front organization">front companies</a>. The plan was to draw in users, chiefly young people, with free text messages and non-controversial content until a <a href="/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)" title="Critical mass (sociodynamics)">critical mass</a> is reached, after which more political messaging would be introduced and full opposition members can sign up. A large user base would also make it difficult for the Cuban government to shut down the service due to popular demand and a loss of revenue. During its development phase before official launch, engineers working on the project leveraged the user data they had on Cubans and prototype software to gather demographic and other intelligence, such as public opinions about opposition music acts in the lead-up to the 2009 <a href="/wiki/Paz_Sin_Fronteras_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Paz Sin Fronteras II">Paz Sin Fronteras II</a> concert. At its peak, more than 40,000 unsuspecting Cubans interacted on the platform. As the number of users grew, USAID struggled to cover the operating costs, especially the amount of text messaging fees paid to Cuba's mobile network providers. The project reached out to potential investors such as Twitter co-founder <a href="/wiki/Jack_Dorsey" title="Jack Dorsey">Jack Dorsey</a> and interviewed industry executives to lead a front company that could make the program more viable commercially. These efforts ultimately failed to help, leaving many Cubans mystified after the service suddenly stopped working.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="China_2">China</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to former U.S. officials who spoke to <a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a>, the <a href="/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidency of Donald Trump">Trump administration</a> authorized a covert influence campaign across social media in China in order to turn public opinion against the Chinese government. The operation began in 2019 and involved <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> agents using bogus internet identities. They promoted negative narratives about Xi Jinping's government and leaked disparaging information to international news outlets. In addition to China, the campaign also targeted countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and the South Pacific. The CIA used the same method during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> when it planted daily articles against the former <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, but this risks backfiring from counter-accusations by Beijing and endangers Chinese dissidents as well as journalists, who could be falsely accused for being spies.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Political_warfare&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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National Defense University Press, 1989), p. 7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, p. 12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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"Propaganda" (IG Publishing, 1928).</li> <li>Lawrence W. Bielenson, "Power Through Subversion" (<a href="/wiki/Public_Affairs_Press" title="Public Affairs Press">Public Affairs Press</a>, 1972).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Ellul" title="Jacques Ellul">Ellul, Jacques</a>. "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Trans. Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner. (Random House/Vintage, 1973).</li> <li>Linebarger, Paul M. "Psychological Warfare". (International Propaganda and Communications, 1948).</li> <li>Carnes Lord and Frank R. Barnett, eds., "Political Warfare and Psychological Operations: Rethinking the US Approach" (National Defense University Press and National Strategy Information Center, 1989).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Luttwak" title="Edward Luttwak">Luttwak, Edward</a>. 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