Propaganda, power and persuasion from World War I to Wikileaks - Welch, David 1950- (I.B. Tauris, 2014)
Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Part I Introduction; 'Opening Pandora's Box': Propaganda, Power and Persuasion; Part II The Great War; 1 Propaganda, Memory and Identity: The Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914; 2 Images of the Hun: The Portrayal of the German Enemy in British Propaganda in World War I; Part III Interwar Period and the Second World War; 3 George Arliss: The Superstar as Propagandist. British Propaganda in the Interwar Period
4 'War' versus 'Cultural' Propaganda: Institutional and Ideological Tensions over the Projection of Britain during the Second World War5 'Today Germany, Tomorrow the World': Nazi Propaganda and Total War, 1943-45; Part IV Cold War and Post Cold War; 6 The Tragedy of American Public Diplomacy, 1989-1999: The Last Decade of the United States Information Agency Reconsidered; 7 Radio Free Asia and China's Harmonious Society; 8 NATO and Information Warfare; Part V Strategic Communications; 9 Strategic Communications and the Combatant Commander
10 Strategy, Influence, Strategic Communication and British Military Doctrine11 Bridging the Firewall? Information Operations and US Military Doctrine in the Battles of Fallujah; Part VI Contemporary Modes of Propaganda and the War on Terrorism; 12 (Mis)Communication Wars: Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and the Media; 13 WikiLeaks and Cybersecurity: New Modes of Propaganda; 14 'Telling it like it is': Contemporary War, Propaganda, Media and the State; Notes; Select Bibliography
As Philip Taylor has written, 'The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the information and images that shape our thoughts. If this happens, the war propagandists will be back in business again.'Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which can be interpreted in a number of different ways. What are the characteristic feat