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Лелеющий обиды. Детали психологического портрета Владимира Путина указывают на глубокую уязвимость кремлевского лидера

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J Michael Waller and Fredo Arias-King / Center for Security Policy / July 21, 2021. Дж. Майкл Уоллер, Фредо Ариас-Кинг Все свои двадцать один год у власти Владимир Путин представляет себя обществу в образе спасителя России. Руководители этой страны всегда были загадкой для сторонних наблюдателей, но Путин загадочен вдвойне. Даже сегодня, после столь продолжительного нахождения … Read more

Nursing Injustices: An unsparing psychological profile of Vladimir Putin will reveal a deeply vulnerable Kremlin leader

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J Michael Waller and Fredo Arias-King / Center for Security Policy / July 20, 2021. Since seizing control of the Kremlin 21 years ago, Vladimir Putin has waged an image-making campaign to build himself as the savior of Russia. The country’s leadership has always been enigmatic to outsiders, but Putin has presented special riddles as … Read more

A modest proposal: How everyone can win while solving the border crisis

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by J Michael Waller / The Federalist / April 22, 2019 The country is so polarized that it seemed like a solution to the Mexican border crisis was impossible – until the past 10 days since President Trump tweeted an interim approach that makes everyone a winner. In a few short words on April 12, … Read more

‘Weaponizing ridicule’: Breaking ground in Army’s Military Review journal

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The U.S. Army’s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, asked Dr. Waller to expand on his pioneering work in 2006 to use ridicule as a weapon. Waller’s article, “Weaponizing Ridicule,” is published in USACAC’s bimonthly intellectual journal, Military Review, September-October 2017. It looks out of place in Military Review‘s table of contents, but that’s … Read more

Founding Political Warfare Documents of the United States

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by J. Michael Waller, editor (IWP/Crossbow Books, 2010/2011), 367 pp. Download PDF of full text here: Founding Political Warfare Docs 3 Public diplomacy and political warfare have been an American tradition since before the founding of the republic. The Continental Congress made its case to the world when it was founded in 1774. In this course … Read more

Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War

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This ground-breaking monograph by J Michael Waller departs from the conventional view of public diplomacy and international communication in time of war and argues for deploying messages as weapons of attack against the terrorists and other extremists. Proposing an immediate-term strategy that requires no bureaucratic reorganization or major budgetary changes, Fighting the War of Ideas like … Read more

Larry, Curly and Osama: Killing the enemy by ridicule

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by J Michael Waller / Los Angeles Times / May 21, 2006.  The piece, titled in the print edition as “Larry, Curly and Osama,” appears online as “Larry, Curly and Musab.” OSAMA BIN LADEN says he doesn’t fear dying. He says he fears being humiliated. So let’s give it to him. Bin Laden and others have thrived on … Read more

PSYOP by ridicule: New York Times says Waller’s paper got Pentagon review

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The New York Timesreports that officials in the Pentagon and Iraq have reviewed an academic paper that called for a strategic psychological campaign of ridicule against terrorist leaders and other adversaries. The paper “has been circulating at the Pentagon and among military commanders with experience in Iraq recently,” the New York Timesreported in its May 6, 2006 … Read more

USA Today cites Waller’s strategy on weaponizing ridicule

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(Institute of World Politics news release)  A recently-published white paper on the use of ridicule as an instrument of political warfare by  IWP Professor J. Michael Waller has been recognized in the opinion pages of USA Today and is topic of discussion in the blogosphere. Author Peter Schweizer posited that “in a brilliant new white paper on public diplomacy, Michael Waller, the … Read more