Disinformation and other forms of ‘sharp power’ now sit alongside the ‘hard power’ of tanks and ‘soft power’ of ideas in policy handbook
- Written by Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
The right to arm bears? Mixing the soft and the hard.Getty Images Plus“The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.”
So wrote Thucydides in the “History of the Peloponnesian War,” and the Greek historian’s cold-eyed observation still holds.
But in today’s world, strength doesn’t always...