James J. F. Forest

Influence Warfare (eBook, PDF)

How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in a War of Ideas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313347320
• Artikelnr.: 43074634

Autorenporträt

James J. F. Forest is Director of Terrorism Studies at the United States Military Academy, where he teaches courses on information warfare, terrorism/counterterrorism, comparative politics and international relations. He is the author of Homeland Security: Protecting America's Targets, three volumes (PSI, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Bruce Hoffman Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction James J.
F. Forest and Frank Honkus, III PART I: TERRORISM AND STRATEGIC INFLUENCE
2. Jihad.com 2.0: The New Social Media and the Changing Dynamics of Mass
Persuasion Aidan Kirby Winn and Vera L. Zakem 3. When Fatwas Clash Online:
Terrorist Debates on the Internet Gabriel Weimann 4. New Media's Influence
on the Assessment of Publicly Communicated Terrorist Threats M. Karen
Walker 5. The Terrorist Spectacular and the Ladder of Terrorist Success
Cori E. Dauber PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMBATING TERRORISM 6. The
Strategic Dimensions of Terrorism: Concepts, Countermeasures, and
Conditions in the Search for Security Frank L. Jones 7. The Strategic
Influence Deficit of Terrorism Max Abrahms 8. Challenges to Shaping
Civilian Attitudes and Behaviors in a Theater of Operations Christopher
Paul, Todd C. Helmus, and Russell W. Glenn 9. The Nonkinetic Aspects of
Kinetic Efforts Joshua Alexander Geltzer 10. Online Recruitment,
Radicalization, and Reconnaissance: Challenges for Law Enforcement Simon
O'Rourke 11. Who's Winning the Battle for Narrative? Al-Qaida versus the
United States and Its Allies Sebastian Gorka and David Kilcullen 12. Using
the Internet to Uncover Terrorism's Root Causes Joshua Sinai PART III: CASE
STUDIES OF STRATEGIC INFLUENCE 13. U.S. Strategic Communication Efforts
during the Cold War Daniel Baracskay 14. The Cook Report and Perceptions of
Loyalists in Northern Ireland: Lessons for Counterterrorism James Dingley
15. Al-Qaida's Strategy for Influencing Perceptions in the Muslim World
Sammy Salama and Joe-Ryan Bergoch 16. The Information Operations War
Between Israel and Hizballah during the Summer of 2006 Guermantes E.
Lailari 17. Strategic Uses of the Internet by Hizbut Tahrir-Indonesia
Frank Hairgrove, Douglas M. McLeod, and Dhavan V. Shah PART IV: CONCLUSION
18. Conclusion: Assessing the Conceptual Battlespace Joshua Alexander
Geltzer and James J. F. Forest Bibliography Index About the Editor and
Contributors