Psychological Warfare

Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOps), have been known by many other names or terms, including MISO, Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda. The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people".Various techniques are used, and are aimed at influencing a target audience's value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with …

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GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 22 October 2024 English

After stepping back from the presidency to the position of prime minister in order to observe the letter, if not the spirit, of term limits, all the while clearly still …

of ’friendly‘ foreign elements, ’black‘ psychological warfare and even encouragement of underground resistance


Cato Institute · 15 October 2024 English

conflict while advancing its security objectives in the region, particularly through propaganda, psychological warfare, and proxy operations."

region, particularly through propaganda, psychological warfare, and proxy operations.” This is not the objectives in your region through propaganda, psychological warfare, and proxy operations isnʼt the path to


Brookings Institution · 10 October 2024 English

Political campaigns in America have always featured misinformation about the issues, but today, AI and other new technologies represent an unprecedented challenge to the electorate and our political system. The …

this all causes a great deal of, like, psychological warfare and anxiety and makes people much more


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 8 October 2024 English

suffered losses in a number of areas, a dynamic that the SAF tried to publicize as a form of psychological warfare, to create the impression of a general collapse in their opponent’s strength. [...] As of

the SAF tried to publicize as a form of psychological warfare, to create the impression of a general collapse


IIC: India International Centre · 4 October 2024 English

One of the explanations being extended for this includes the possibility of escalation of the war by provoking the right to self-defence of NATO allies due to the effects of …

to peddle their ideologies, propaganda, psychological warfare and information operations. In Afghanistan digital media for information operations and psychological warfare with the help of the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services


RAND Corporation · 1 October 2024 English

The Chinese Communist Party has come to embrace social media as a way to influence domestic and foreign public opinion, actively seeking to use social media platforms for both overt …

information technology, for next- generation psychological warfare, including via social media.24 Most recently Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Chinese Next-Generation Psychological Warfare: The Military Applications of Emerging military powers’ skillful use of “online psychological warfare” [网络攻心战] and the great influence of the researchers saw the “potential” for offensive psychological warfare in Facebook and Twitter, and identified Application of the Booming Social Media in Psychological Warfare [“社交媒体的迅猛发展及心理战运用的几点启示”],” National Defense


ACAPS · 1 October 2024 English

On 23 INTERNALLY September 2024, the Israeli army increased their military attacks, with over ANTICIPATED SCOPE AND SCALE DISPL ACED PEOPLE 330 raids targeting over 117 towns and cities in …

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ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 24 September 2024 English

Introduction The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has witnessed significant changes since its first push for modernisation in the 1980s under Deng Xiaoping. This has included regular updates in …

backdrop of the 2020 Galwan clashes and psychological warfare strategies of assigning Mandarin names289


UN: The United Nations · 11 September 2024 English

24 p.Transmits report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-30/1.

hostages were being pressured through the psychological warfare practised on them by the Qassam Brigades


Prospect Foundation · 10 September 2024 English

With more than half of the world’s seaborne trade passing through the Taiwan Strait and 90% of advanced semiconductors manufactured in the country, Taiwan is an indispensable partner in economic …

political necessity, strategic preference, and psychological warfare against Taiwan. With a broad consensus on


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