Wars Enhance Our Vocabulary

Wars bring new words and phrases to public notice. World War I taught the world camouflage, World War II brought Blitzkrieg and Kamikaze, while the Cold War gave us containment and deterrence. The ‘War on Terror’, which began in the wake of 9/11 brought new prominence to words and phrases such as public diplomacy. Its when these methods of propaganda coerce the public to ally themselves with the promoters of such slogans, do we see the exact nature and extremes governments will go to, to ensure full control of the population. When considering the affairs of the West over the past 15 years, 12 of those 15 years can be described as an interwar period. Public Diplomacy is a critical feature that highlights the changes that both the U.S and much of Europe have experienced when engaged with the disputes in the East. It’s the era that has been described the period with ‘no-name’ that we refer to as the post-cold war. Only until the explosive events on the 11th of September 2001, where a new era of public diplomacy was born and many of the resurrected policies of the cold war play a vital role. Public Diplomacy in its essence is a product of American activity in the middle of its armed race against the Russian government in heights for the rise of power. All of this taking place during the middle years of the cold war prelude and during its fruition to determine the next superpower of the world.

Since the cold war dialogues took place, the U.S and Russian relationship has been one with much sensitivity, so much where the global communications environment has chosen their alliances very particularly. ‘The dominant contextual fact about war for the United States over the past 15 years has, of course been geopolitical. The abrupt demise...

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...ad, had the idea of destabilizing the American monopoly on nuclear energy and research. Mr Giruad was part of the French Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, otherwise know as the CEA. Throughout the years leading up the soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Giruad led systematic attacks on the monopoly position of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in enrichment, as wells as constructing bureaucratic hoops of international exchange to deter any further progress for the U.S.’s control. It was Giruad who initiated the idea to form a special uranium suppliers’ club designed to break the U.S. AEC’s (Atomic Energy Commission) price control of uranium (The Nuclear Barons, Pringle & Spigelman p337).

Emergence of failed states

Afghanistan

There has been an unquestionable radical change in character of the dominant form of terrorism since the end of the cold war.