We need to include political warfare as a means of influencing public opinion and the policies of leaders around the world to promote our national security.
In the U.S., the government pays attention to public opinion and they know how to promote a policy through opinion leaders.
In the case of Syria, a country at the heart of the Arab consciousness, the force of a public opinion that increasingly demands more action from its leaders is even more in play.
The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general public.
Public opinion in China might be making it difficult for Chinese leaders to climb down.
Between the 8th and 10th of June, more than 800 African and international leaders in economics, politics, and public opinion will get together in Libreville, Gabon for the maiden edition of the New York Forum Africa.
What passes for public opinion in China is not the only source of pressure on the leaders.
But for China's leaders, and, it seems Mr Kissinger himself, public opinion anywhere outside the United States is not really a factor when the geopolitical stakes are so high.
Public opinion in many Arab countries is rather more sympathetic to the Iranians than are their leaders - the proverbial "Arab street" seeing Iran often as a rather more active champion of causes like that of the Palestinians.
To defeat them, he wrote, business leaders needed to wage a long-term, unified campaign to change public opinion.
Public happiness, assessed by opinion polls, is being introduced as a new criterion for judging local leaders' suitability for promotion.
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