The Cold War, Propaganda, and the State–Private Network

• Published in: Cold War Games p. 9
• Main Author: Rider, Toby C
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Illinois Press 27.04.2016
• Subjects: Armed conflict; Behavioral sciences; Broadcast media; Cognitive psychology; Cold War; Cold wars; Communications; Communism; Foreign policy; Government; Government agencies; Government relations; Intelligence; Intelligence services; International disputes; International politics; International relations; Mass communication; Mass media; Military science; Political campaigns; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political processes; Political science; Politics; Propaganda; Psychological warfare; Psychology; Public administration; Public policy; Radio; Social sciences; Sport and Leisure; state–private network; U.S. foreign policy; Unconventional warfare; War; War theaters; Warfare; World wars
• ISBN: 0252040236; 9780252040238
• DOI: 10.5406/illinois/9780252040238.003.0002

By the time Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, the United States had developed a far-reaching capability to produce and disseminate propaganda across the globe, not to mention the resources and inclination to launch audacious covert operations. The United States did not, however, enter the Cold War with this machinery in place. These methods had been widely deployed during World War II, but the “usual American procedure of improvident disarmament” largely removed psychological warfare from the scene after the confrontation had ended. “The situation stood thus stagnant,” assessed a later government report, “until eventually the realization dawned that here