{"product_id":"creating-chaos-larry-hancock-9781944869878","title":"Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreating Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e explores that dark side of statecraft, the covert use of political warfare in international relations - from its early practices during the Great Game between the British and Russian empires, through the Cold War era of ideological confrontation and forward into the hybrid political warfare of the 21st Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreating Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e presents and illustrates the full body of covert and deniable political warfare practices, tracing their historical development and their use by both America and Russia throughout the Cold War and beyond. Using the most current information available, Hancock, a \"veteran national security journalist\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) examines the evolution of political warfare tools and tactics in the era of the global Internet and ubiquitous social media, evaluating their effectiveness and illustrating the rapidly increasing levels of risk associated with these new and untested cyberwarfare tools.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirtually no books have studied actual political warfare beyond the Cold War, and only a handful have provided any insights into the new and rapidly evolving practices of the Russian Federation or of the political warfare aspect of NGOs or other surrogate actors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA companion volume to \u003ci\u003eShadow Warfare: The History of America's Undeclared Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreating Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the nature and history of political action practices, exploring a number of formerly secret American and Russian hybrid warfare and active measures projects in detail. With that background for context, it then extends those practices into the twenty-first century and contemporary events, evaluating wellestablished practices as they are being used with the newest tools of the global Internet and social media. It demonstrates the exponential increase in their effectiveness--and the equally exponential risk and consequences involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Hancock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1944869875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944869878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OR Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Larry Hancock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978912432383,"sku":"9781944869878","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9ffd602-b1d0-4247-909a-fbbc4df4f831.jpg?v=1683243532","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creating-chaos-larry-hancock-9781944869878","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}