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We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was 'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. In this astonishing journey through a century of secret psychological war, Rid reveals for the first time some of history's most significant operations - many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander that produces Germany's best jazz magazine

Wired at war -- War 1.0 -- The United States -- The United Kingdom -- Israel -- War 2.0 -- Hezbollah -- Taliban -- Al-Qaeda -- Conclusion -- Chronology

"Die USA unterscheiden sich in sicherheitspolitischen und militärischen Angelegenheiten maßgeblich von den wichtigsten europäischen Ländern. Erstens ist die vorübergehende Hinwendung zur Aufstandsbekämpfung (etwa im Irak und in Afghanistan) hervorzuheben. Zweitens hat sich der politische Gestaltungsspielraum des Militärs in der Außenpolitik vergrößert. Diese Betrachtungen müssen jedoch nicht unbedingt Grund zur Sorge über die zivil-militärischen Beziehungen in den Vereinigten Staaten sein. Gerade die US-amerikanischen Streitkräfte sind eine fest von demokratischen Grundwerten durchzogene Organisation, die in vielerlei Hinsicht die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft widerspiegelt." (Autorenreferat)

"Cyberwar is coming!" John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt predicted in a celebrated Rand paper back in 1993. Since then, it seems to have arrived -- at least by the account of the U.S. military establishment, which is busy competing over who should get what share of the fight. Time for a reality check: Cyberwar is still more hype than hazard. Consider the definition of an act of war: It has to be potentially violent, it has to be purposeful, and it has to be political. The cyberattacks we've seen so far, from Estonia to the Stuxnet virus, simply don't meet these criteria. Adapted from the source document.