Library of modern american history us politics propaganda and the afghan mujahedeen domestic politics and the afghan war

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Influential fundraising groups and senators in the US made enormous efforts in the First Afghan War to present the Mujahedeen as ‘freedom fighters’ – even while the CIA secretly armed them. A mass propaganda effort was launched, aimed at portraying parts of Afghanistan as victims of communist aggression. As we know now, many of those groups that were armed became the seedbeds for organisations like Al-Qaeda. Dr Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, through a forensic investigation of the American PR of the period, argues that this militarised and fractured Afghan society for a generation – partly resulting in the mess today. She examines the American efforts to suppress any reports which showed these forces as anti-western or anti ‘American values’, and instead to portray the arming of partisan groups, often an extremely dangerous course of action, as an example of American values in action.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 november 2021

Aantal pagina's: 240

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Jacqueline Fitzgibbon

Hoofduitgeverij: I.B. Tauris

Product breedte: 156 mm

Product hoogte: 15.6 cm

Product lengte: 234 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 156 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm

Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 340 g

EAN: 9780755637256

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