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PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

Specialty Definition: PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

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Military

Planned psychological activities in peace and war directed to enemy, friendly, and neutral audiences in order to influence attitudes and behavior affecting the achievement of political and military objectives. They include strategic psychological activities, psychological consolidation activities, and battlefield psychological activities. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Psychological operations

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Psychological Operations or PSYOP or PSYOPS are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to specific audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives.

See also Psychological warfare, Information warfare

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Psychological operations."

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Crosswords: PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

Specialty definitions using "PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS": key symbol. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

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Books

  • Reserve Component Linguist in Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations (reference)

  • Psychological Operations and Political Warfare in Long-term Strategic Planning: (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

Expression using "PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS": psychological operations approach. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

Language Translations for "PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

lélektani hadviselés (psychological warfare, psyop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ychologicalpsay operationsay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

psihološke operacije. (various references)

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Bibliography


  

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