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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The day before the beginning of the offensive on December 27 the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) pulled troops back from the border and used its radio channels to broadcast talk of a "lull" in order to achieve a disinformation coup ("con") to lure Hamas fighters out of hiding.
Deception in warfare dates back to early history. [6] The Art of War, an ancient Chinese military treatise, emphasizes the importance of deception as a way for outnumbered forces to defeat larger adversaries. [7] Examples of deception in warfare can be found in ancient Egypt, [8] Greece, [9] and Rome, [10] the Medieval Age, [11] the Renaissance ...
During the Cold War, South Korea also used towering electronic billboards, reminiscent of the “Hollywood” sign near Los Angeles, while North Korea set up signboards with a message that read ...
Psychological torture, mental torture or emotional torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects and only secondarily on any physical harm inflicted. Although not all psychological torture involves the use of physical violence, there is a continuum between psychological torture and physical torture.