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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHaving a personal experience and a deep understanding of the situation in Albania and Kosovo due to his postings in 1997 (during Operation Alba), 2003, and 2004...This book contains some strong and original points of view and solutions for the complicated and sensitive situation in the above-mentioned region. * Modern Military Spirit *
Hentea, a colonel in the Romanian Armed Forces working in the psychological operation section of the Romanian General Staff and a psychological operations and information operation staff officer in NATO's headquarters in Kosovo in 2003-4, describes and assesses what he judges to be the failure of the West's information war (propaganda) activities during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, while also looking at the propaganda efforts of other forces. In the end, he judges NATO informational failure to be the result of a "deaf- mute" dialogue wherein the West failed to understand the psychology of the Serbs or other Balkan peoples. * Reference and Research Book News *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Glossary Part 2 Foreword Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Understanding Information Warfare: Some Necessary Definitions Part 5 Particularities of Modern Information Operations Part 6 Pertinent Historical Background and Ethno-Geography of the Balkans Part 7 Bosnia: 1992-2003: UNPROFOR Media Failures and NATO Informational Achievements Part 8 Romanian Peacekeeping in Bosnia, Albania, and Kosovo: Events and First Hand Experience Part 9 Kosovo 1999: NATO versus Yugoslavia Part 10 Kosovo 1999-2004: The Efficiency of a Well-Trained Routine Part 11 The Propaganda War in the Balkans: A Deaf-Mute Dialogue Part 12 Notes Part 13 Selected Bibliography Part 14 About the Author
