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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CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English

One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …

traditional battleground to information/psychological warfare and war of perceptions; • from direct clash waging of disinformation campaigns and psychological warfare are all in the inventory. Criminal behaviour waging of disinformation campaigns and psychological warfare are all in the inventory, as are terrorism information warfare, firepower, manoeuvre, and psychological warfare capabilities. The Chinese PLA textbook, The concept to SOF, in fact, task- tailored psychological warfare (PSYWAR) elements, designed to bolster or


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 July 2023 English

Table of Contents Introduction Pacing Threats Russia China The Canadian Battleground Reaction Effective Countermeasures Conclusion End Notes About the Author Canadian Global Affairs Institute Introduction Foreign influence, interference, disinformation, deception …

disinformation, interference, media manipulation, psychological warfare and legal warfare.”4 China and Russia maintain


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 10 March 2023 English

The result was the formation of the United Nations and in particular Article 2(4), which prohibited “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of …

Consisting of (1) public opinion warfare, (2) psychological warfare and (3) legal warfare, the three warfares


Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada) · 12 December 2022

The Ottawa Coalition sought standing before the Public Order Emergency Commission (“POEC”) to address the circumstances that led to the declaration of the public order emergency, including the failure of …

the horn honking as being “tantamount to psychological warfare.”56 50. Some more vulnerable residents were


Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada) · 7 December 2022 English

NATALIA RODRIGUEZ: And you can have the 7 timeline of events as -- yeah, and that is the institution 8 report of the City of Ottawa with respect to the …

for nine days, which is 25 tantamount to psychological warfare." 26 Then you say: 27 "Given the scope and


Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada) · 7 December 2022

JEAN-SIMON SCHOENHOLZ: And was the province 2 aware of the threats of a blockade prior to the arrival of the 3 convoy at the border or near the border? 4 …

for nine days, which is tantamount to 4 psychological warfare.” (As read) 5 DSG MARIO Di TOMMASO: I accept


Wilson Center Canada · 28 November 2022 English

Challenges and Opportunities for South Korea in the U.S.-China Competition

integrating space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare capabili- ties into a single organization


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 August 2022 English

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure. Seed and chemical companies are using these data, and these agribusinesses are a form …

from Canada, con- fessed to having built “psychological warfare tools” for ca. He and others at the company


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 29 March 2022 English

and integrity measures that have been implemented to, ostensibly, combat the spread Canada and Germany are like-minded global of mis- and disinformation during an election? partners who champion common values …

firm Cambridge Analytica initiated its psychological warfare tactics to predict and potentially Introduction


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 16 December 2021 English

She noted the irrationality of building a pipeline under the Morice River that provides drinking water for the Wet’suwet’en and supports the fish and animals and the land. [...] Having …

judge in their underclothing, and other psychological warfare tactics. To the cheering of the participants


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