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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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.