Information Warriors

Information Warriors Synopsis

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 redrew the map of the Middle East, yet the region has since endured constant conflict.  Military and economic wars have been fought openly, whilst the West and Arab states have quietly controlled public opinion by managing the narratives that validate their actions. 

Here we meet the hidden information war, from the propaganda coup of the entry of British forces into Jerusalem in 1917 to the campaign that sold the case for regime change in Saddam's Iraq in 2003. 

As the West has embraced public diplomacy and soft power, the propagandists of Islamic State have developed global reach to greater effect by using a simple message via cutting edge digital output and thriving social media to generate publicity and harvest recruits.  In the Trump era of fake news, media manipulation and cyber warfare, the battle to control public opinion in the modern Middle East is one the whole world is watching.