Hans J. Morgenthau - War With China? (1965)
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Professor Morgenthau is one of the most eminent critics of American foreign policy today. Here he suggests that the United States is on the verge of embracing a policy in Vietnam which will lead either to humiliating defeat or to a much wider war.
Reprinted from The New Republic,
© 1965, Harrison-Blaine of New Jersey, Inc.
Abstract
Undoubtedly this 21st century is the century of peak of modern sciences and media war. With every passing day the concept of conventional war is getting obsolete. In modern methodology war rooms are actually consists of super computers spreading information of your choice whether factual or not. In fact it’s all based on narrative building and changing public perception. We have seen in recent history how media was used/misused to achieve desired results in narrative building across the world.
In this thesis I have tried to research the effectiveness of Propaganda on global level. How different countries have actively used tools of Hybrid war or may also be called 5th generation war to achieve geo political and strategic targets. Despite of knowing the consequences and catastrophic damages of such propaganda. In most cases it resulted in mass losses of human lives and complete destruction of Infrastructures. While in some cases it started wars between countries (Yemen & Saudi Arabia, Ukraine & Russia) and others. Also hybrid war brought many nations on brink of big conventional wars like Pakistan & India, and Standoff between China & India. Even in some cases it could have caused Nuclear wars between two countries for example North Korea & USA, Pakistan & India.
As case study I have studied Iraq war (US & NATO Invasion) which was legitimized by United Nations approved on reports about presence of Weapon of Mass Destructions (WMD’s). Which was later proven all false and all reports , Media reports , documents everything was proven fabricated to build certain narrative to mislead the entire 170+ Member Nations of the world in UNO. Hence it’s not only one of the most recent and classic example of White Propaganda. This might be considered as biggest successful propaganda campaign of 20th century which resulted into millions of Iraqis undue massacre, A complete destruction of oil rich economically stable country which caused loss of trillions of dollars and complete infrastructure demolition.
Furthermore in this thesis I have discussed fatal impacts of false propaganda, types of propaganda. Importance of knowing and countering propaganda and hybrid war tools to secure national interest. A chapter of thesis explains how a state can use propaganda for multiple uses to divert attentions from its failures and achieving success in certain narrative building.
A brief critical study of Strategic affairs based on media warfare is also part of this thesis. Every state desire to secure its strategic interests, which type of methodologies being used in modern day policy making of strategic affairs is also a part of this research. There’s no doubt every country like to achieve best for its strategic interests but what kind of illegal, unethical, unlawful, inhumane & ill methods are used as state agenda is also discussed. Since our planet is already facing many challenges of its destruction ( environmental issues, Covid-19 Type Pandemics & others ) than why this risk of world war , nuclear wars due to illness of controlling or conquering the world. All that is happening on the name of strategic interests.
Maurice Strong - Managing for Global Survival (1988)
About Maurice Strong
Maurice Frederick Strong, PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Strong had his start as an entrepreneur in the Alberta oil patch and was President of Power Corporation of Canada until 1966. In the early 1970s he was Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and then became the first executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme. He returned to Canada to become Chief Executive Officer of Petro-Canada from 1976 to 1978. He headed Ontario Hydro, one of North America's largest power utilities, was national president and chairman of the Extension Committee of the World Alliance of YMCAs, and headed American Water Development Incorporated. He served as a commissioner of the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1986 and was recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a leader in the international environmental movement.
He was President of the Council of the University for Peace from 1998 to 2006. More recently Strong was an active honorary professor at Peking University and honorary chairman of its Environmental Foundation. He was chairman of the advisory board for the Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia. He died at the age of 86 in 2015.
David C. Glass - Biology and Behavior Genetics (1968)
Preface
Contemporary social scientists no longer adhere to a simplistic environmental determinism, just as contemporary biologists no longer embrace a genetic determinism. In both fields there is increasing recognition of the importance of an interaction between the organism and the environment. Neither the genetic parameter nor the environmental parameter alone can account for more than a portion of behavioral variability. With the development of this interactional approach, a revitalized interest in the genetic basis of social behavior has been witnessed. On November 18-19, 1966, Russell Sage Foundation and The Rockefeller University, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council, sponsored a conference on genetics and behavior in Caspary Auditorium on the Rockefeller campus in New York City. The organization of the meeting was guided by the premise that recent advances in genetics portend serious social, ethical, and legal consequences. It is important that both biological and social scientists study these consequences. Social scientists, in particular, are equipped by training and are implicitly committed to make substantial contributions in this area. However, they often lack the knowledge of behavior genetics necessary for sophisticated analysis of the social consequences of new knowledge resulting from research on genetics. The specialist in genetics, on the other hand, often lacks the interest or skill necessary for examination of the broad implications of this research. The purpose of the conference was to enable participants drawn from both groups of scientists to benefit from exposure to the work of representatives of the other.
- DAVID C. GLASS
Russell Sage Foundation and
The Rockefeller University