Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy

Focuses on disinformation and information warfare used by the KGB during the Soviet Union period, as part of their active measures tactics. Co-authored by Richard H. Shultz, professor of international politics at Tufts University, and Roy Godson, professor emeritus of government at Georgetown University, the book discusses Soviet disinformation tactics including injection of Communist propaganda through covert groups within the U.S.S.R. tasked with disrupting activities of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. The book explains disinformation methods including forgery as covert operation, agents of influence, and using social influence to turn targets into useful idiots. They focus on disinformation activities of Soviet intelligence from 1960 to 1980. Shultz and Godson discuss case studies as examples of Soviet disinformation, including a French journalist covertly financed by Russian agents in order to publish biased material against Western interests, and the front organization activities of the World Peace Council. They back up their analyses with two Soviet intelligence defectors. Foreign Affairs called the book a 'useful survey' of how Soviet intelligence used disinformation 'to further its strategic aims such as discrediting America and weakening NATO.' The Journal of Conflict Studies described it as 'a useful introduction to a field of knowledge' of importance to security experts, the United States Intelligence Community, and diplomats. Society called Dezinformatsia, 'a highly readable and insightful book.'

Politics & Social Sciences

Shultz, Richard H.

Politics & Government

Potomac Books Inc.

Understanding Internal Wars and Conflicts

This book aims to track the evolution of internal wars, examining its various aspects, patterns and armed-group actors. It presents both an overview and assessment of the key topics and issues one must consider theoretically and operationally when analyzing such conflicts.  Today, even the most developed and powerful states are vulnerable to non-traditional security challenges fostered by armed groups employing unconventional and asymmetric means. To be able to assess these areas requires detailed information on armed groups and their interaction. This means one must appreciate the distinctive and commonly shared features of armed groups, as well as key differences among them.  The book covers all the critical areas of study for internal wars:  the changing face of war trends in international conflict and war the crisis of the state ethno nationalism and religious extremism  economic factors and globalization overview of non-state armed groups four types of armed groups organization, ideology and tactics strategic non-violent action in internal wars.  Understanding Internal Wars and Conflicts will be of interest to students and scholars of civil wars, ethnic conflicts, conflict resolution and security studies and international relations in general.

Lochard, Itamara V.

Reference

Routledge

The rules of engagement in the third world are as structured as a ballet. This volume examines how US and Soviet foreign policies address Guerrilla warfare in the third world and gives a broad strategic analysis of low-intensity conflict objectives and constraints. Twenty-eight contributions. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency: U.S.-Soviet Policy in the Third World

Lexington Books

Soviet Union and Revolutionary Warfare: Principles, Practices, and Regional Comparisons (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

History

Russia

Hoover Inst Pr

The Soviet Union and Revolutionary Warfare

Naval Forward Presence and the National Military Strategy

Engineering & Transportation

Pfaltzgraff, Robert L.

Engineering

Naval_Institute_Press

"The Marines' campaign to secure Anbar Province in Iraq will rank as one of the Corps' historic battle achievements. Dick Shultz's brilliant account of that campaign is rich in lessons learned and examples of adaptability. The Marines Take Anbar will be a classic study in counter insurgency." -- Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.) 
The U.S. Marine Corps' four-year campaign against al Qaeda in Anbar is a fight certain to take its place next to such legendary clashes as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin, and Khe Sanh. Its success, the author contends, constituted a major turning point in the Iraq War and helped alter the course of events and set the stage for the Surge in Baghdad a year later. This book brings to light all the decisive details of how the Marines, between 2004 and 2008, adapted and improvised as they applied the hard lessons of past mistakes. 
In March 2004, when part of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) was deployed to Anbar Province in the heart of the Sunni triangle, the Marines quickly found themselves locked in a bloody test of wills with al Qaeda, and a burgeoning violent insurgency. By the spring of 2006, according to all accounts, enemy violence was skyrocketing, while predictions for any U.S. success were plummeting. But at that same time new counterinsurgency initiatives were put in place when I MEF returned for its second tour in Anbar, and the Marines began to gain control. By September 2008 the fight was over. Richard Shultz, a well-known author and international security studies expert, has thoroughly researched this subject. His book effectively argues the case for the Marines changing the course of the war at Anbar, which is contrary to the conventional wisdom that the Surge was the turning point.

The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against al Qaeda (Leatherneck Classics)

Military

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