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Richard Stengel. Information Wars
RICHARD STENGEL
CONTENTS
GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
The Turnstile
The Lobby
The Marshall Office
The 8:30
Comms and the 9:15
The Foreign Service
Meetings Are Action
Luck = Opportunity + Readiness
Vetting Is Painful
The Confirmation Process
Wrong Foot
Rethinking Rethinking
Silos, Silos, Everywhere
The Birth of Counter-Messaging
Bringing Back Our Girls, Slowly
The Ben Cave
Welcome to International Broadcasting
Choice of America
Putin’s Pulp Fictions
“A Message to America”
Punching Back
The Republic of Fear
Ukraine Deputies
The Dangers of Transparency
Finding the Messenger
Satire Is What Closes on Saturday Night
#Hashtag Diplomacy
The Secretary Is on the Line
A Coalition of the Unwilling
Every Battle Is Won or. Lost Before It’s Fought
Lines of Effort
You Have Your Truth—We Have Ours
The Gray Zone
We’re Not the Audience
Question More
A Modest Proposal
My Bad
Blundering On
Recalibrating on Russia
What’s in a Name?
Petulance as Policy
Business as Usual
Holding Fire
The Right Path
For Whom the Bell Trolls
Making _______ Great Again
A Gift Horse
The Meeting Is All
Shutdown
“Lisa”
They Always Accuse You of What They’re Doing
The Brexit Predicate
The Prince of Darkness
The Showdown That Wasn’t
Before You Leap
Who Has the Pen?
Going For It
The Bar Scene in Star Wars
Interference
The Far Enemy Is the Near Enemy
Telling America’s Story
From Russia with Love
The Day After
The Problem
Fixes
Section 230
Privacy and Elections
Algorithms, Ratings Systems, and Artificial Intelligence
The Media
Advertising
POSTSCRIPT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES. INTRODUCTION
PART I: WELCOME TO STATE. THE LOBBY
COMMS AND THE 9:15
THE FOREIGN SERVICE
PART II: GETTING THERE. LUCK = OPPORTUNITY + READINESS
THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS
PART III: THE JOB. WRONG FOOT
RETHINKING RETHINKING
THE BIRTH OF COUNTER-MESSAGING
BRINGING BACK OUR GIRLS, SLOWLY
WELCOME TO INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
PART IV: INFORMATION WAR. PUTIN’S PULP FICTIONS
“A MESSAGE TO AMERICA”
PUNCHING BACK
THE REPUBLIC OF FEAR
THE DANGERS OF TRANSPARENCY
SATIRE IS WHAT CLOSES ON SATURDAY NIGHT
#HASHTAGDIPLOMACY
THE SECRETARY IS ON THE LINE
PART V: THE BATTLE IS ENGAGED. A COALITION OF THE UNWILLING
EVERY BATTLE IS WON OR LOST BEFORE IT’S FOUGHT
LINES OF EFFORT
YOU HAVE YOUR TRUTH—WE HAVE OURS
THE GRAY ZONE
WE’RE NOT THE AUDIENCE
QUESTION MORE
MY BAD
BLUNDERING ON
RECALIBRATING ON RUSSIA
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
PETULANCE AS POLICY
BUSINESS AS USUAL
HOLDING FIRE
FOR WHOM THE BELL TROLLS
PART VI: DISRUPTION. MAKING ______ GREAT AGAIN
SHUTDOWN
“LISA”
THEY ALWAYS ACCUSE YOU OF WHAT THEY’RE DOING
THE BREXIT PREDICATE
THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS
WHO HAS THE PEN?
GOING FOR IT
THE BAR SCENE INSTAR WARS
INTERFERENCE
THE FAR ENEMY IS THE NEAR ENEMY
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
PART VII: WHAT TO DO ABOUT DISINFORMATION. THE PROBLEM
SECTION 230
PRIVACY AND ELECTIONS
ALGORITHMS, RATINGS SYSTEMS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
POSTSCRIPT
INDEX
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Praise for Information Wars
“With the eye of a historian and the passion of a man in the arena, Richard Stengel has given us a compelling and illuminating memoir of his time at the highest levels in the fight against disinformation and for American values. Richly observed and thoughtfully rendered, Stengel’s book is essential reading.”
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State is an observational culture. In 1775, when the forerunner of the department was created as a committee of Congress, it was set up to watch and report the goings-on of the world. That original mission is still in the DNA of the Building. At State, people were good at monitoring things. Almost everything was retrospective. Every meeting recounted something that had already happened, and then every subsequent meeting recounted that recounting. And then there were the “summary of conclusions” memos, even if there were no conclusions. At Time, we used to have meetings about what we were doing that day, but we also had weekly and monthly planning meetings to plot out the quarter or the year. Early on, I asked my acting chief of staff when all the planning meetings were. She didn’t know what I meant. There weren’t any.
At State and elsewhere in Washington, there was a lot of admiring the problem. We’d look at an issue—say, the concern that the Mosul Dam in Iraq was about to collapse—and examine it from every possible angle. Then memos were written covering each theory of the case. New memos were then signed off on and circulated. Then task forces were formed that spurred another round of memos. Then meetings of higher-ups were convened to examine the task forces’ findings. The problem wasn’t solved, but the bureaucracy was satisfied.
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