Why is it wrong for western nations to retaliate with disinformation campaigns of their own in countries like russia and china, who were currently attacking democracies with disinformation that's te question. I think at the moment, i mean, again, we are still trapped in our notion of ourselves asWe don't do this information. We do strategic communication, which i have a tendency to feel as what we call propaganda when we are doing it. This is an aerowit. As we said, the b b c world service, russian service, was extraordinarily influential,. because people reached the point where they would absolutely leave the bb c over pravda, isvestia and all the other
Traditional conflict – fought with guns, bombs, and drones – has become almost too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. So nations have innovated. Russia wages hybrid warfare on Ukraine. The US threatens Iran with further sanctions. China spends billions buying political influence abroad. The world seems to be heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared and unending. Mark Galeotti is Honorary Professor at UCL and a specialist in politics, criminology, security studies, international relations and anthropology. His recent book, The Weaponisation of Everything, is a ground-breaking survey of this new way of war. Joining Mark to discuss the book and his work is Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos.
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