Abstract
Media has also been used as psychological warfare and a propaganda tool, particularly during times of wars and acts of insurgency. It has been used as a tool while fighting the wars and boosting the morale of the security forces across the nations. Propaganda, although it has existed almost indefinitely, has grown immensely during the past few centuries as a most strategic tool to guard the strategic interests of the nations. The propaganda was bolstered by the invention of the radio. The ability to communicate orally with a large number of people in a very small amount of time also helped the development of propaganda. This form of mass media has been used as the most effective tool with the government agencies to put forth their news and views. Radio has strategically suited governments across the globe to fight psychological wars by airing propaganda into the territories of the neighbouring countries. Since Radio is affordable and speaks in a local language and customs to a very common man, it has definitely an edge over other formats of communication when it comes to the question of guarding the strategic interests of a nation. This research discusses and deals with the strategic interests and the media and how radio has especially been used worldwide as a tool by a number of countries to safeguard their national interests. This chapter touches upon some theories and elements of propaganda, the use of radio during world wars and how countries guarded their strategic interests in the Cold War and Post-Cold War era.
Highlights
Nations across the world, believing in any system or form of government, have been using media under their control as a tool to defend and safeguard their strategic interests
Various nations across the globe have always used media as a tool to safeguard their strategic interests by promoting their ideologies, cultural or democratic values; policies and priorities, political ambitions and at the same time used media in propaganda and counterpropaganda operations both in times of peace and war
Such an exercise has mostly been accomplished through official media under the control of the Governments or funded by parties or regimes in power
Summary
Nations across the world, believing in any system or form of government, have been using media under their control as a tool to defend and safeguard their strategic interests. While the sovereign and democratic countries have been/are using media in propagating the essence of democracy within the State and in their neighborhood, countries ruled by kings, monarchs or military generals, had used media in disseminating whatever suited their individual and collective strategic interests. The Capitalist and the Communist nations have not lagged behind in using media under their control against each other for lobbying, thrusting, generating and containing opinions besides projecting their exclusive viewpoints and ideologies. Irrespective of the fact whether nations believing in democracy, monarchism, dictatorship or driven by religious extremism, the governments over the years have overtly and covertly used
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