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Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations , Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda.
Project Troy was a research study of psychological warfare undertaken for the Department of State by a group of scholars including physicists, historians and psychologists from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and RAND Corporation in the fall of 1950. [1]
In 1983, Jeanne Henriette Louis defended her thesis on psychological warfare in the United States during World War II, entitled Les concepts de guerre psychologique aux États-Unis de 1939 à 1943, l’engrenage de la violence ("The concepts of psychological warfare in the United States from 1939 to 1943, the cycle of violence"). [1]
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 ...
Historian Julia Lovell has criticized Hunter's reporting as "outlandish" and sensational. By 1956, US government psychologists largely concluded after examining files of Korean War POWs that brainwashing as described by Hunter did not exist, but the impact of his reporting was significant, and helped shaped public consciousness about the threat of Communism for decades. [7]
Lilly's career as a historian of colonial America was permanently interrupted by his government work and interest in psychological warfare. He published one article ("A Major Problem for Catholic American Historians") in the Catholic Historical Review (Jan. 1939), and ten book reviews in the Catholic Historical Review and the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, all of which were in the first ...
Psychological Warfare. South Asian kingdoms maintained thousands of elephants as an indispensable part of their military forces. Battle elephants were trained to walk in formation in regiments ...
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is a book by Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing and the military law enforcement establishments attempt to understand and deal with the consequences of killing.