{"product_id":"2940148397410","title":"POLITICAL WARFARE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: U.S. CAPABILITIES AND CHINESE OPERATIONS IN ETHIOPIA, KENYA, NIGERIA, AND SOUTH AFRICA","description":"Africa today has emerged as a continent of strategic\u003cbr\u003econsequence. Domestic and international terrorism\u003cbr\u003easide, the two great powers of our time, the United\u003cbr\u003eStates and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), are\u003cbr\u003evying for influence over African governments and\u003cbr\u003epeople. Not unlike the Cold War, the primary means of\u003cbr\u003eexerting influence in Africa is through the use of nonviolent\u003cbr\u003einstruments of grand strategy.\u003cbr\u003eIn this monograph, Dr. Donovan Chau considers one\u003cbr\u003enonviolent instrument of grand strategy in particular,\u003cbr\u003epolitical warfare. Retracing the origins and mischaracterizations\u003cbr\u003eof political warfare, Dr. Chau suggests that\u003cbr\u003ethe PRC has used political warfare as its leading grand\u003cbr\u003estrategic instrument in Africa. The monograph offers a\u003cbr\u003econcise, detailed overview of U.S. capabilities to conduct\u003cbr\u003epolitical warfare in Africa. It then examines PRC\u003cbr\u003epolitical warfare operations in four regional “anchor”\u003cbr\u003estates—Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges from Dr. Chau’s analyses is the Chinese\u003cbr\u003euse of political warfare intentionally targeting\u003cbr\u003eU.S. interests in Africa. Unless the U.S. Government\u003cbr\u003erecognizes the utility of political warfare and reorients\u003cbr\u003ethe federal bureaucracy to employ it effectively, he intimates\u003cbr\u003ethat future U.S. influence in Africa will wane—\u003cbr\u003eto the benefit of a country that understands political\u003cbr\u003ewarfare and uses it seriously.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084153471216,"sku":"2940148397410","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148397410_p0.jpg?v=1763702092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148397410","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}