Psychological Warfare Techniques - Propaganda, Psychological Warfare, Information Warfare, Fifth Column, Disinformation, False Flag (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Propaganda, Psychological warfare, Information warfare, Fifth column, Disinformation, False flag, Political warfare, Strategy of tension, Information war during the 2008 South Ossetian war, Airborne leaflet propaganda, Shock and awe, Music in psychological operations, Web brigades, Workplace deviance, Cyberwarfare in Russia, Limited hangout, Stay-behind, Beheading video, IWar, Martyrdom video. Excerpt: Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda is often biased, with facts selectively presented (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political, or other type of agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare. While the term propaganda has acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples, propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others. The English term is an 17th century coinage, from the Latin neuter plural gerund of propagare "to propagate," originally in Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "Congregation for Propagating the Faith," a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV. In its turn, the wo...