How did the United States of America manage to catch up in the field of information warfare during the first half of the 20th century? There is, indeed, an unfortunate tendency to rewrite history. However, contrary to what is stated in certain popular science works, it was not the Americans who invented information warfare. President Woodrow Wilson certainly demonstrated a degree of innovation in radio communication during the First World War. But American intelligence services, still in an embryonic state between the two wars, had to overcome a significant lag compared to British creativity. This is the subject of this 17th podcast of ’50 Years of Information Warfare’ with Christian Harbulot.
