Obama and Hillary Clinton announced as Presidential candidates that. if elected, they would scale down on George W. Bush’s "shock-and-awe" and "war-on-terror" approach but, instead put the accent on "soft power" which they also called "smart power".
A new form of US covert warfare -was first played out in Serbia in 2000. What appeared to be "a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement' was the product of techniques" developed over decades - based on the concept of commumication "swarming."
When Bonaparte invaded Egypt as part of his quest for world domination, he told the people: “You will be told that I came to destroy your religion; do not believe it … I have more respect than the Mamelukes for your God, His Prophet, and the Koran.”