 What Is Political Warfare? Congressional Research Service Report Thank you Congressional Research Service. Finally someone in the US government with the guts to recognize the existence of political warfare. We should not forget that as we follow the dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means, our adversaries believe politics is war by other means. Or as Mao said, politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Here is my summarized way t... 