Political Influence Operations: How Foreign Actors Seek to Shape U.S. Policy Making

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Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. elections brought the problem of foreign influence on American politics into sharp relief. However, externally-sponsored subversion of U.S. decision making has been a shadowy threat to American policy for the better part of a century. Political Influence Operations provides an incisive examination of how external actors have infiltrated American societyfrom lobbyists, to academia, to the mediain order to further their own objectives. Tromblay draws upon historical examples to demonstrate how U.S. adversaries and sometimes its ostensible allies have used the openness of American society against the countrys best interests. By identifying vulnerabilities and exposing the underlying dynamics of foreign influence, the book provides a roadmap for U.S. governmental and private sector entities to navigate the currents of international engagement.

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Tromblay boldly shows how the very structure of the U.S. government, American political culture, and modern political processes and actors converge to provide foreign entities with opportunities to influence U.S. politics. This is a disturbing but needed book. -- Nicholas Dujmovic, Assistant Professor of Politics, The Catholic University of America

Author Bio

Darren E. Tromblay has served the U.S. Intelligence Community as an Intelligence Analyst for more than a decade. He is the author of The U.S. Domestic Intelligence Enterprise: History, Development, and Operations (2015) and coauthor of Securing U.S. Innovation (2016). Tromblay has been published by Lawfare, The Hill, Small Wars Journal, Intelligence and National Security, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics. He holds an MA from the George Washington Universitys Elliott School of International Affairs and an MS from the National Intelligence University.