Guys, I'm trying to find (without much luck) any of the posts that were made here a few weeks back concerning US military psy-ops units. It was a recruiting video using an old 1930s looking cartoon, as I recall. Now I can't find it. Anyone know the military unit involved? Need it for a piece I'm writing.
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Ghost Army may be what you are looking for: https://www.livescience.com/wwii-ghost-army.html
The current iteration of the Ghost Army is now Military Information Support Operations: https://www.army.mil/article/199431/100_years_of_subterfuge_the_history_of_army_psychological_operations
And here is a nice field manual to get you started: https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-05-301.pdf
And the video you were referencing: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/05/17/foreboding-army-psyops-recruitment-video-shows-whos-pulling-the-strings/
THANK YOU SO MUCH, that's precisely what I needed.
Here is something of a primer Q posted 02/24/20 on counterinsurgency operations that is 1/3 psyops, 1/3 information warefare, and 1/3 hearts and minds.
COIN
https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/119629.pdf
https://qagg.news/?q=%23%233882
A companion document to others above (with Q Good Gaslighting Seal of Approval.) : )
By the by, check out the date delta on the Q drop above with the COIN Guide and info this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Thank you, Condor. Ya' know, I think we've all known from the beginning that what people think they "know" about the Ukraine-v-Russia thing is not just a psy-op, but it's from multiple psy-ops from many different players. I still run into folks here (east Tennessee) who think they are well-informed but who really just parrot the US party line of "Russia bad, Ukraine double-plus-good."
Some moron who lives down the street from me has proudly posted a Ukraine flag with "FUCK PUTIN" printed in bold letters, for all the world to see. But I also notice that his yard has suddenly become littered with all manner of trash from people passing by....street karma at its best.
Answered below, but since I looked I'll throw this YT link out there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHqM45fIk8
Thanks. I'm trying to introduce a bunch of folks I know into what psy-ops is and why it's important. It seems to be redefining what "war" is. We in the post-WWII, Korea, Vietnam era tend to think of was solely as armies and navies fighting it out to determine a winner.... but today the fight is more for the minds of the opposing side, and victory can be claimed without firing a shot....or at least only a FEW shots.
Agreed, many sheep are still asleep w/o understanding of irregular warfare and that we're in the midst of it.
I think of Psy-Ops as the individual battles in a war of propaganda, and propaganda itself as an evolution of the tools of war. Air combat changed how armies fight, and how a war is won by one side and lost by another. Propaganda, the battle to control a population's minds, disrupted war in the same way. That's how the Vietnam War was won: by propaganda.
I think that Covid is a tool for today's propaganda war in the same way that the Tet Offensive (a military failure by any conventional measure) was needed by China/Vietnam to achieve its victory by propaganda.
For some reason I was driven to research Chao En-Lai a little before Covid broke. A fascinating case study of war using propaganda as a principal tool.
Good points. I wonder (and this is a huge speculation, I know) if following two back to back world wars with combined dead exceeding 100 million, and the mass deaths of millions more in proxy wars.... I wonder if there is now an aversion to such massive multi-million deaths such that the armies of the world now resort to capturing the minds of the opposing side rather than destroying the bodies?
I know that sounds like a Pollyanna view, but just wondering if that's even possible.
On the other hand, I know that some psychopaths (of whom we have way too many occupying seats of power) would gladly kill off BILLIONS of people to get more power.
I think it's more about resource allocation: once you have the tools, it's the superior weapon.
... Kind of like how keeping a cattle ranch is easier than constantly hunting buffalo. It seems less violent, but really it's just more convenient. Q told us they think that way.
In a similar vein, the invention of agriculture replaced hunting and gathering and a nomadic lifestyle. Instead of chasing naturally occurring crops from season to season, or trailing herds of bison or deer, mankind could settle down to farming in one place, raise a large crop and have livestock, harvest in the fall, sell surplus crops to others, have enough to live through the winter, and settle down into one place. It may have given rise to civilization as we know it.
Yeah, lots more efficient. But still, there's something wrong about the whole concept of optimizing nature: monoculture, roundup-ready crops, and clearcutting. It's a paradox of existing.
A lot depends on whether you're performing the harvesting, or being subjected to it. We can choose which flock we join, and if we don't choose we easily end up in the wrong paddock. Let's all pray God shows His hand soon. Holy Spirit > mind > worldly matter.
Amen to that, Mr. A. But as to optimizing nature, over the years I've come to the conclusion (after studying anthropology and history as electives at a university) and by just observing my fellow man, that basically humans are lazy, and probably all technological advances in our history has been to make life and work easier. Few of us could farm like they did in 1800 or even 1900, but few of those 1800-1900 farmers would have chosen hunting-gathering to survive.
I suspect that laziness -- seeking the easier way to do things -- has driven civilization t this point.
I love it when someone asks for something and another anon brings it right up for them. This is us. Not a stupid TV show, but frens.
So true. Anons here have bailed me out before when I needed some information. Lots of good minds here with a deep knowledge of things. This is how the Great Awakening in general will advance, by millions of patriots with many different skills, talents, and depths of information to share.
I'd bet a cheeseburger (with grilled onions no less) that if I were to ask some arcane question about...say, how does an airfoil provide lift to an airplane, someone would quickly jump in and detail Bernoulli's principle.
An amazing bunch of people here, that's for sure.