Psychological Warfare | RAND Psychological warfare involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of opposition groups RAND has studied military information support operations (MISO) in many countries and war zones and has provided objective and supportable recommendations to policymakers on methods and tactics to employ or defend
Cognitive Domain Operations: The PLAs New Holistic Concept for . . . As information becomes ever more central for Chinese warfighting, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is developing a new concept for psychological warfare in the information era called "cognitive domain operations" (认知域作战, renzhiyuzuozhan) This next-generation evolution of psychological warfare seeks to use information to influence
Chinese Next-Generation Psychological Warfare - RAND Corporation The People's Liberation Army psychological warfare community has discussed a variety of technologies that it envisions leveraging for future operations These include advanced computing, especially big data and information processing; brain science, especially brain imaging; and legacy proposals that remain of interest, including sonic weapons
Assessing Military Information Operations in Afghanistan, 2001–2010 This research brief offers an overview of the effectiveness of U S psychological operations in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010, with particular attention to how well messages and themes were tailored to target audiences
Psychological Operations by Another Name Are Sweeter Public and congressional support for PSYOP has lagged because of the incorrect assumption that these operations are inherently insidious Changing the name from the menacing "psychological operations" to the more benign "military information support operations," with the friendlier acronym MISO, should go some ways toward fixing the problem
Psychological Effects of U. S. Air Operations in Four Wars, 1941-1991 The psychological effects of air operations can significantly shorten wars and reduce their costs, particularly in American lives In some conflicts, the psychological effects of air operations may exceed the physical effects in importance This report suggests ways to maximize the psychological impact of U S airpower in future conflicts
U. S. Military Information Operations in Afghanistan - RAND Corporation The efforts of U S military information operations and psychological operations in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2010 grew less successful over time The most notable shortcoming was the inability to counter the Taliban propaganda campaign against U S and coalition forces on the theme of civilian casualties
Information Operations: The Imperative of Doctrine Harmonization and . . . The Department of Defense should implement the recommendations made in RAND's 2012 report, U S Military Information Operations in Afghanistan: Effectiveness of Psychological Operations 2001–2010, especially those regarding integration and harmonization of IO doctrine and the establishment of measures of effectiveness for IO
U. S. Militarys Efforts to Influence Afghan Population Have Grown Less . . . Psychological operations were defined by the U S Department of Defense as planned operations to convey selected, truthful information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning and ultimately the behavior of their governments, organizations and individuals
Maximizing the Psychological Effects of Airpower - RAND Corporation Exploit the psychological effects of airpower with timely ground operations Because weaknesses in the cohesion and morale of enemy deployed forces are likely to be temporary and subject to repair, ground offensives should be mounted promptly to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities that have been created by air attacks