Melvin A. Goodman — Learning from the Cold War to prevent war with Russia today

Backgrounder in conjuring up enemies and manufacturing consent to fight them.

Summary: Clinton has stocked her foreign policy team with advisors belligerent and reckless, eager for conflict with Russia. The military-industrial complex’s propaganda mills work to arouse fear and hatred of Russia, as they did during the Cold War. Let’s learn from that history before we starting risk a terrible war. We were told mostly false stories about the Soviet Union. How accurate are those about Russia? {This updates my post from Oct 2009.}

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Learning from the Cold War to prevent war with Russia today

Melvin A. Goodman | senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. He spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the U.S. Army. His latest book is Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.

See also

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The Doctrine of Armed Exceptionalism

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