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Mosaic of Alexander the Great on his campaign against the Persian Empire.. Currying favor with supporters was the other side of psychological warfare, and an early practitioner of this was Alexander the Great, who successfully conquered large parts of Europe and the Middle East and held on to his territorial gains by co-opting local elites into the Greek administration and culture.
On a video broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV on January 10, showing the names of Israeli towns hit by rockets, it was implied Tel-Aviv is the next target and that 'all options are open'. [5] Also, Hamas sent messages in Hebrew to Israeli citizens' mobile phones warning: "Rockets on all cities, shelters will not protect you."
Fearmongering is routinely used in psychological warfare for the purpose of influencing a target population. The tactics often involves defamation of an enemy by means of smear campaigns . False flag attacks have been used as a pretext for starting a war in many cases, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident , the Shelling of Mainila , and ...
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and psychological warfare effort exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. It was an attempt to increase desertions and defections from Việt Cộng forces and weaken their morale. It was also to coerce the Việt Cộng forces into leaving and going home, weakening their numbers.
Paper Bullets: A Brief Story of Psychological Warfare in World War II. New York: Froben Press. OCLC 568030399. Newitz, Annalee (2024). Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. New York: Norton. ISBN 9780393881523. OCLC 1430659114. – first 30 pages online; Paddock, Alfred H. (2002). US Army Special Warfare: Its Origins ...
Psychological phenomena, such as stereotyping, confirmation bias, selective attention, and echo chambers, contribute to the virality and success of disinformation on digital platforms. [139] [145] [5] Disinformation attacks are often considered a type of psychological warfare because of their use of psychological techniques to manipulate ...
This series came from a determination to understand why, and to explore how their way back from war can be smoothed. Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues.
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