Governing by fake news

What are Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying
to destabilise our democracies; that terrorism has struck France, not for what
it does, but for what it is; that the genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000
victims... Literally none, but these assertions are enough to establish the
foreign policy of Western countries. The author, a former agent of the Swiss
strategic intelligence service, reviews the main contemporary conflicts that
Western countries have managed with fake news over the last thirty years.
Jacques Baud, a colonel, chemical and nuclear weapons expert, trained in
counter-terrorism and counter-guerrilla warfare, designed the Geneva
International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and its Information
Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA). In the service of the United
Nations, he served as Chief of Doctrine for Peacekeeping Operations in New
York, and was engaged in Africa. In NATO, he led the fight against the
proliferation of small arms. He is the author of several books on
intelligence, asymmetric warfare and terrorism.