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URL:https://www.yaleclub.de/events/the-politics-of-us-information-warfare/
SUMMARY:The Politics of US Information Warfare
DESCRIPTION:The history\, why we are so bad at this\, and current challenge
 s given the domestic and geopolitical situation\n\n\nWednesday\, April 26t
 h\, 2023\, 7 p.m. CET\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Theater at Amerikahaus\nKarolinenpl
 atz 3  80333 Munich\n​\nJoin us in Munich for a Dialogues on Democracy 
 evening. This event is planned to be hybrid. Register via evenoo for the i
 n-person event HERE.\n\n\n\nIf you cannot be with us in Munich\, you can w
 atch the YouTube livestream HERE\n\n\nLabels such as "psychological warfar
 e\," and "information warfare\," or "hybrid warfare\," and "political warf
 are" have appeared in recent years to reflect attempts to understand and f
 rame how an adversary attempts to shape the minds and will of people towar
 d a political end.  Matt Armstrong argues the US has long struggled conce
 ptually\, organizationally\, and practically on how to approach these and 
 related issues as he argued the United States continually fails to properl
 y armed itself for the cold reality of the political warfare waged against
  its interests.\n\nAn absence of historical perspective and understanding 
 suggests we will continue our missteps\, if we take any steps at all. The 
 US Information Agency\, created in 1953\, is often held out as a symbol of
  success that should be recreated in some form\, but it actually represent
 ed a failure in that it replaced an agency that had a far broader portfoli
 o\, enjoyed greater authorities\, and was already integrated into formulat
 ion and conduct of foreign policy\, and it was not tasked with defending a
 gainst foreign political warfare. What now?  \nMr. Matthew Armstrong is c
 urrently pursuing a PhD at King’s College London on US responses to Russ
 ian political warfare in the early cold war. He was previously nominated b
 y the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve (2013-2017) as a Gove
 rnor on the Broadcasting Board of Governors. He previously served as the E
 xecutive Director of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. For n
 early two decades\, he has worked with the Defense Department\, the State 
 Department\, Congress\, NATO organizations\, and ministries of NATO member
  countries on issues related to the US government’s international inform
 ation activities. He’s testified several times before Congressional comm
 ittee\, including the House Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign
  Affairs Committee\, on “information warfare” and “gray zone” acti
 vities. He is an Honorary Member of the Psychological Operations Regiment 
 at the US Army’s JFK Special Warfare Center and School. He was sanctione
 d by Russia in 2022.\nHe earned a B.A. in International Relations and a Ma
 ster of Public Diplomacy from the University of Southern California and st
 udied European security at the University of Wales\, Aberystwyth. He has l
 ived in Europe since 2013\, with the past seven years in Zürich. Matt is 
 married with two kids\, two cats (one British\, one Lithuanian)\, and a re
 scued dog (Romanian).
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CATEGORIES:Munich,Munich Dialogues on Democracy,virtual
LOCATION:Amerikahaus Munich\, Karolinenplatz 3\, Munich\, 80333\, Germany
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