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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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.