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21 December, 2001: "Psyops"By Kathy Kinsley Fox News has an interesting article today, titled "The Power of Propaganda". It's a good overview of "psychological operations", with history and basic information about methodology. One thing I"ve noticed about the (few) articles about psyops in this war is that none of them mention the Internet as a method of dissemination. I can't believe they would overlook it, but that might be the case. Admittedly there is little "Arab street" on the net, but there are members of the 'elite' who might benefit from some interesting rumors, or even facts. In addition to psyops (aimed at the enemy), there is also propaganda, which can be used on neutrals and allies and even citizens. There is a good deal of this on the net (from all sides), but there always has been. I'm wondering whether the military is missing something, and whether there might be some useful things we all could do online in either the propaganda or psyops areas. This would not necessarily be something for bloggers, (although I am very fond of the Instapundit's PsyWar Update). Things we could say in chats or e-mails to anti-war types to make them think, doubts that could be 'inserted' into the minds of enemies through questioning e-mails to their sites... anything like that could be useful. My question to my readers (all three of you...) is whether you'd be interested in doing some brainstorming on ideas. With any luck we might get the military to hire us all at high salaries as cyber-psyops consultants (yeah...dream on). At any rate, it might be fun!
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