Propaganda

Why Dissolving RFE/RL and VoA is a Major Geopolitical Blunder
If you want to find real warfighters in America’s history, RFE/RL’s and VoA’s journalists perfectly fit the definition.

Forecasting Hezbollah’s Next Move
Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah, and reportedly Hamas, on Tuesday and Wednesday mark a significant escalation in the Gaza war and bring Israel and Iran’s “axis of resistance” closer to all-out...

China’s Gray-Zone Tactics Come to America
China employs various “gray zone” tactics—moderately aggressive actions that are not egregious enough to provoke conventional military retaliation—against multiple adversaries. One such tactic is deployed within the United States: undeclared...

Hamas’ Delusional War Propaganda
“Abu Obaida” is the nom de guerre of the military spokesman of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. Clad in a green military uniform and a red keffiyeh,...

Interventionism’s Moral Narrative Has Crumbled
When Western governments, led by the Biden administration, switched focus from the staling Ukraine-Russia conflict to a reinvigorated Israel-Palestine one, they exposed one of the most repeatedly deployed tools for...

Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping the Story of the Israel-Gaza War
Hamas’s massacre of Israeli civilians, known as ‘Black Sabbath,’ caught virtually everyone by surprise, even though the group had a long history of violence. One reason for this situation is...

The Shared Poison of China’s Democracy Charade
The 2023 Summit for Democracy, initiated by the United States and co-hosted by Zambia, South Korea, the Netherlands, and Costa Rica, concluded on March 30, after affirming that “free, fair,...

Is China Winning the Information Race?
Jacob Heilbrunn: Is there an information race and should America be concerned about China’s attempt to construct its own global media? Joshua Kurlantzick: There is an information race, to be...

How Ukraine Won the Information War
A little over a year ago, global audiences were transfixed by the final days of the war in Afghanistan. While headlines around the world reported on catastrophic battlefield losses and...

Meet NAFO: The Virtual Army Disarming Russian Disinformation
Roughly four months into the war in Ukraine, images of a cartoon Shiba Inu dog were popping up all over Twitter. It started when the Georgian Legion, a volunteer military...

Moscow Exploiting Fear of NATO to Increase Russian Support for War
The Kremlin is making strategic use of fear and scare tactics against the Russian people, telling them they are in grave danger of being killed by NATO unless Russia defends...

Is Putin Winning the Domestic Propaganda War?
Just how much of the Russian population is influenced by false media reports and disinformation campaigns intended to blind the public to the actual reality of what is happening on...