In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.