Psyops 101: A brief history of fake news

Published on 1 Nov 2012

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6059

Military deception is an ancient and time-honoured art. Throughout recorded history, military commanders have attempted to spread false news and seed false information as part of psychological warfare operations to deceive, confuse, and demoralize the enemy. Find out more about this phenomenon in this week's Eyeopener report from BoilingFrogsPost.com.

Psyops 101: An introduction to psychological operations

Published on 23 Oct 2012
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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=5985

Psyops, or psychological operations, is a term used to describe the techniques of psychological manipulation used in warfare. These operations are used to deceive, confuse, disrupt and demoralize the enemy, with an aim toward weakening enemy resistance or even causing enemy forces to surrender and enemy populations to capitulate.

As the flip-side to the ancient wisdom that knowledge is key to all successful warfare strategies, the art of deliberately sewing deception has been understood and practiced for thousands of years.

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