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Creating Chaos
by Larry Hancock
(O/R Books, £13)
FROM the 19th century Great Game, through the cold war and into this century's information warfare, great powers have engaged in a range of activities to influence and undermine their enemies.
Since the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, we've heard a great deal about the tactics employed by Russia to allegedly influence elections and support divisive nationalism in the Western world.
But, as Larry Hancock's Creating Chaos shows, the toolkit of information warfare was developed by the US 70 years ago in its cold war "active measures" campaign to prevent developing nations breaking free of neocolonialism and Western dominance.
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