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We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources
into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of
weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts.
Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security,
was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016
election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was
'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to
disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called
active measures have become, they are not new. In this astonishing
journey through a century of secret psychological war, Rid reveals
for the first time some of history's most significant operations -
many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires
and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered,
anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the
CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht
U-boat commander that produces Germany's best jazz magazine.
This textbook offers an accessible introduction to
counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.
Featuring essays by some of the world's leading experts on
unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book
discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should react,
to irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three main
sections:
- Doctrinal Origins: analysing the intellectual and historical
roots of modern Western theory and practice
- Operational Aspects: examining the specific role of various
military services in counterinsurgency, but also special forces,
intelligence, and local security forces
- Challenges: looking at wider issues, such as governance,
culture, ethics, civil-military cooperation, information
operations, and time.
Understanding Counterinsurgency is the first comprehensive
textbook on counterinsurgency, and will be essential reading for
all students of small wars, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism,
strategic studies and security studies, both in graduate and
undergraduate courses as well as in professional military
schools.
This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media
in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military
public affairs management since Vietnam. In late summer 2002, the
Pentagon considered giving the press an inside view of the upcoming
invasion of Iraq. The decision was surprising, and the innovative
"embedded media program" itself received intense coverage in the
media. Its critics argued that the program was simply a new and
sophisticated form of propaganda. Their implicit assumption was
that the Pentagon had become better at its news management and had
learned to co-opt the media. This new book tests this assumption,
introducing a model of organizational learning and redraws the US
military's cumbersome learning curve in public affairs from
Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, the Balkans to
Afghanistan, examining whether past lessons were implemented in
Iraq in 2003. Thomas Rid argues that while the US armed forces have
improved their press operations, America's military is still one
step behind fast-learning and media-savvy global terrorist
organizations. War and Media Operations will be of great interest
to students of the Iraq War, media and war, propaganda, political
communications and military studies in general.
'Cyber war is coming,' announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In
2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win
in cyberspace, the 'fifth domain' of warfare. This book takes
stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really coming? Has war indeed
entered the fifth domain?Cyber War Will Not Take Place cuts through
the hype and takes a fresh look at cyber security. Thomas Rid
argues that the focus on war and winning distracts from the real
challenge of cyberspace: non-violent confrontation that may rival
or even replace violence in surprising ways.The threat consists of
three different vectors: espionage, sabotage, and subversion. The
author traces the most significant hacks and attacks, exploring the
full spectrum of case studies from the shadowy world of computer
espionage and weaponised code. With a mix of technical detail and
rigorous political analysis, the book explores some key questions:
What are cyber weapons? How have they changed the meaning of
violence? How likely and how dangerous is crowd-sourced subversive
activity? Why has there never been a lethal cyber attack against a
country's critical infrastructure?How serious is the threat of
'pure' cyber espionage, of exfiltrating data without infiltrating
humans first? And who is most vulnerable: which countries,
industries, individuals?
Thomas Reid saw the three subjects of logic, rhetoric and the fine
arts as closely cohering aspects of one endeavour which he called
the culture of the mind. This was a topic on which Reid lectured
for many years in Glasgow and the volume is as near a
reconstruction of these lectures as is now possible. The material
is virtually unknown now but in fact it relates closely to Reid's
published works and in particular to the two late ones, Essays on
the Intellectual Powers of Man and Essays on the Active Powers of
Man. When composing these volumes, Reid drew primarily on his
lectures on 'pneumatology' which presented a theory of the mental
powers, broadly conceived. These lectures were basic to the course
on the culture of the mind which explained the cultivation of the
mental powers. Although the Essays also included some elements from
the material on the culture of the mind, the bulk of the latter was
left in manuscript form and Professor Broadie's edition restores
this important extension of Reid's overall work. In addition, this
volume continues the Edinburgh Edition's attractive combination of
manuscript material and published work, in this case Reid's
important and well known essay on Aristotle's logic. This text was
corrupted in older editions of Reid's works and is now restored to
the state in which Reid left it. This volume underscores Reid's
great and growing significance, viewed both as an historical figure
and as a philosopher. At the same time, it is of great
interdisciplinary importance. While the material emerges directly
from the core of Reid's philosophy, as now understood, it will
appeal widely to people in literary, cultural, historical and
communications studies. In this regard, the present volume is a
true fruit of the Scottish Enlightenment.
This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media
in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military
public affairs management since Vietnam. In late summer 2002, the
Pentagon considered giving the press an inside view of the upcoming
invasion of Iraq. The decision was surprising, and the innovative
"embedded media program" itself received intense coverage in the
media. Its critics argued that the program was simply a new and
sophisticated form of propaganda. Their implicit assumption was
that the Pentagon had become better at its news management and had
learned to co-opt the media. This new book tests this assumption,
introducing a model of organizational learning and redraws the US
military's cumbersome learning curve in public affairs from
Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, the Balkans to
Afghanistan, examining whether past lessons were implemented in
Iraq in 2003. Thomas Rid argues that while the US armed forces have
improved their press operations, America's military is still one
step behind fast-learning and media-savvy global terrorist
organizations. War and Media Operations will be of great interest
to students of the Iraq War, media and war, propaganda, political
communications and military studies in general.
This textbook offers an accessible introduction to
counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.
Featuring essays by some of the world 's leading experts on
unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book
discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should react,
to irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three main
sections:
- Doctrinal Origins: analysing the intellectual and historical
roots of modern Western theory and practice
- Operational Aspects: examining the specific role of various
military services in counterinsurgency, but also special forces,
intelligence, and local security forces
- Challenges: looking at wider issues, such as governance,
culture, ethics, civil-military cooperation, information
operations, and time.
Understanding Counterinsurgency is the first comprehensive
textbook on counterinsurgency, and will be essential reading for
all students of small wars, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism,
strategic studies and security studies, both in graduate and
undergraduate courses as well as in professional military
schools.
Thomas Reid was an intellectual polymath interested in all aspects
of Enlightenment thought. Paul Wood reconstructs Reid's career as a
mathematician and natural philosopher and shows how he grappled
with Sir Isaac Newton's scientific legacy.
The pervasiveness of Protestant natural law in the early modern
period and its significance in the Scottish Enlightenment have long
been recognised. This book reveals that Thomas Reid (1710-1796) --
the great contemporary of David Hume and Adam Smith -- also worked
in this tradition. When Reid succeeded Adam Smith as professor of
moral philosophy in Glasgow in 1764, he taught a course covering
pneumatology, practical ethics, and politics. This section on
practical ethics took its starting point from the system of natural
law and rights published by Francis Hutcheson. Knud Haakonssen has
reconstructed it here for the first time from Reid's manuscript
lectures and papers, and it provides a considerable addition to our
understanding not only of Reid but of the thought of the Scottish
Enlightenment and of the education system of the time. The present
work is a revised version of a work first published by Princeton
University Press in 1990 which has long been out of print.
Reid's previously published writings are substantial, both in
quantity and quality. This edition attempts to make these writings
more readily available in a single volume. Based upon Hamilton's
definitive two volume 6th edition, this edition is suitable for
both students and scholars. Beanblossom and Lehrer have included a
wide range of topics addressed by Reid. These topics include Reid's
views on the role of common sense, scepticism, the theory of ideas,
perception, memory and identity, as well as his views on moral
liberty, duties, and principles. Historical as well as topical
considerations guided the selection process. Thus, Reid's responses
to Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume are included. Through the
resulting selections Reid's influence and impact upon subsequent
philosophers is manifested.
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