PsyOps - Psychological Operations
A psychological operation (psyop) is an unit of psyological warfare, which takes a hostile stance to other people and tries to trick them. ~ https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Psyop
Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PSYOP), have been known by many other names or terms, including MISO, Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda. The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people". Various techniques are used, and are aimed at influencing a target audience's value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. It is also used to destroy the morale of enemies through tactics that aim to depress troops' psychological states. Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals, and is not just limited to soldiers. Civilians of foreign territories can also be targeted by technology and media so as to cause an effect in the government of their country. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare
Not to be confused with:
Nor to be confused with:
- Black Ops
- Brainwashing
- Class War
- Covert Ops
- Cultural Engineering
- Cyber Ops
- Cyber Wars
- Deep State
- Division
- False Flags
- Five Eyes
- Hypnosis
- Illusionism
- Intelligence Agencies
- Mind Control
- MK Ultra
- Police State
- Predictive Programming
- Proxy War
- PsyWar
- Secret Agencies
- Shadow Government
- Social Engineering
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