The role of
psychological operations is to convey "selected information" to foreign governments, organizations, military personnel and civilians in such a way as to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning and ultimately their behavior, said Evans.
Addressing the deficiencies in civil affairs and
psychological operations will be similar to the recommendations for special forces.
Ron Shleifer's readable, first of its kind, book is titled Perspectives of
Psychological Operations (PSYOP) in Contemporary Conflicts.
Page was a repairman for the Hawk missile system before becoming one of the US army's
psychological operations specialists, who research methods of influencing foreign populations.
Page joined the military in 1992 and was a repairman for the Hawk missile system before switching jobs to become one of the Army's
psychological operations specialists, according to the defence official.
Page, who served in the military for six years, but was never stationed overseas, was a
psychological operations specialist and Hawk Missile System repairman.
I was serving as Advisor to COAS in
Psychological Operations Directorate and I take special pride in the creation of the
Psychological Operations Directorate, sequel to the loss of East Pakistan - a beautiful part of our country.
Through meetings and symposia, the division provides information on a wide variety of matters involving SOFA, low intensity conflict and related national security matters including counternarcotics, combating terrorism, consequence management resulting from terrorist events, civil affairs,
psychological operations, force protection, humanitarian operations and peacekeeping.
The conduct of information operations (IO) by the US military, which includes military deception (MILDEC) and
psychological operations (PSYOP), is based on doctrinal precedence and operational necessity.
Another name is "psyops", or
psychological operations.
Army on whether the name
psychological operations (PSYOP) should be changed--an issue that has arisen periodically for years.