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Could we merge Psychological operations with psychological warfare ?

Yes, that may be better. - Patrick 12:11 Apr 7, 2003 (UTC)

Contents 1 Rough Draft 2 Terrorism 3 Source? 4 Intro 5 Weltanshauungskrieg

[edit] Rough Draft

This is a REALLY shaky rough draft of the article so far. More of a learning experience for me than anything else. Any contributions would be helpful! Salva31 20:28, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I would be shocked if nobody contributed anything related to The Art of War. I'd do it but I'm afraid I can't do justice to this article.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

--Beth C. 23:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

This really is a garbage article. It reads like a bad essay. I don't know anything about PSYWAR and I don't have the time to learn, but I'm going to search for how to flag this article for cleanup or whatever it is.

• • I tagged it for you. — MichaelLinnear 02:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Terrorism

Why hasn't it been mentioned? It seems the most obvious form of this in recent events. --Uberisaac 22:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• This article is mainly about the application of psychological warfare by traditional military forces. MichaelLinnear 02:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source?

"Since the 1990s, these techniques have been used in the news media, especially in the USA." Is there a source for this/is it verifiable in any way? It reads like an opinion to me. It's already tagged citation needed, if no one can source it I think it should be deleted.Fysidiko 23:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

It's garbage and it's gone.

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[edit] Intro

I have finally merged infowars with this article. I believe that the intro is at the moment too short and biased, the definition is from the US Department of Defence. There should be a more general definition of Psychological warfare. --Francisco Valverde 17:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• Apart from that the definition from the US department of defence has no citation. Francisco Valverde 17:40, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weltanshauungskrieg

I think it would be best to add information from that of The Most Dangerous Game, which offers quite a lot.

Ex:

The concept of psychological warfare came from a German word called Weltanshauungskrieg(WEALTH-AN-SHAWN-KREIG), or World View Warfare, which stemmed from the Nazi ideology to impose the Nazi belief on the countries that the Nazis themselves conquered. The Americans picked up this idea and created their own version called Psychological Warfare.

Mind sciences are the study of human behavior in relation to the mind and it is the relatively newest of all the arts due to the fact that it is less than 100 years old, and it is by far the most cloaked in secrecy. Psychological warfare was put into this category and formed the basis of what the Mind sciences really focused on: the study of the mind and what affects it.

Project Paperclip was a CIA operation for the importation of Nazi and fascist scientist into the United States. After World War II, U.S. military officials lobbied Congress to sanction the top secret NAZI transport operation. U.S. officials believed that if they did not bring them into this country and contain them, then their enemy, the Soviet Union, would confiscate them. In 1946, President Truman approved Project Paperclip, bringing Hitler's top scientists into the country. The first wave was to bring in 700 propulsion scientists and then some 600 or so mind scientists. The CIA was put in charge of taking these individuals out of Project Paperclip and putting them into the the Military Complex, which comprised of U.S. colleges and universities. While the propulsion scientists went on to lead the U.S. space program, the mind scientists experimented with mind control techniques. Mind control was a psychological warfare weapon that Adolf Hitler regarded as the means of controlling the entire world. Learning from the Nazis American scientists began developing their own application for mind control.

MK-Ultra, which was led by Ewen Cameron, was the first major research of mind control. Those who were involved in the experiment were treated with drugs, electroshock, Insulin, and other techniques. The first subjects were U.S. military personnel, who were given doses of LSD and PCP without their consent. The program supplied U.S. officials with the overall concepts of mind control, as well as the Nazi's who first developed the concept of psychological warfare.

External links: www.guerrillanews.com

I believe this information will give a greater understanding of psychological warfare. Philosopho 22:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)