Fear and Loathing in Luhansk Tyndall, Euan
The journal of intelligence history,
01/02/2024, Letnik:
23, Številka:
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This article is an exploration of Psychological Operations, focusing on both the role which fear plays in Psychological Operations, and how the Russian Federation employed Psychological Operations in ...the War in Ukraine (2014-2021). A qualitative methodology is used to explore fear as a neurological, psychological and social phenomenon, and how it may be utilised in Psychological Operations. The author finds that Russia's initial use of Psychological Operations was focused on making tactical gains against the Ukrainian military. Shock tactics, combined with strategic messaging, encouraged mass defections from the Ukrainian army and border guard, significantly degrading the combat effectiveness of Kyiv's forces, and increasing the likelihood of victory for the Donbass secessionists. The case study is limited in scope to 2014-2021. The paper can thus be read as both an analysis of one element of Russia's shaping phase prior to the 2022 invasion, and/or a framework for analysing the current stage of conflict.
This paper explores whether psychographic profiling and targeting married with big data and deployed in digital political campaigns is a form of psychological operations (“psy-ops”). Informed by ...studies on deception, coercion, and influence activities from propaganda, persuasion, policy making, cognitive psychology, information, and marketing scholarship, this proposition is examined and historically grounded in a politically important case study: the actions of now defunct political data analytics and behaviour change company, Cambridge Analytica, in the UK's 2016 referendum campaign on leaving the European Union. Based on qualitative analysis of documentation in the UK and USA from public inquiries, regulatory investigations, legal proceedings, and investigative journalists, as well as on revelations from digital political campaigners and Cambridge Analytica itself, this paper assesses the coercive and deceptive nature of Cambridge Analytica's psychographic profiling and targeting, concluding that it is a form of psy-ops. Observing the social unacceptability of such digital campaigning practices (ascertained from national surveys in the US, UK, and globally), this paper discusses the adequacy of measures since put in place to eliminate the risk of further psy-ops in digital political campaigning. It ends by elucidating areas in urgent need of further research.
This millennial era that is inseparable with technological advancement, the role of media and communication become more crucial. Those two components shape up and influence human psychological ...development. Media and communication are two aspects that intertwined from both good and bad influence. Those good and bad stigmas are also inseparable from propaganda. The strength of propaganda depends on whether or not the socio-cultural element is accurately used to deliver the selected message. Sciences regarding social system have become more important because it is related to potential target to support the psychological operations. The psychological operations consisted of delivering a particular message or information through selected media (product) to influence or modify the behavior of the receiver (target audience). In the context of national resilience, astagatra is also known as one of the aspects that influence the success of psychological operations. Therefore, this paper will discuss the study of psychological operations from several disciplines such as communication, media, propaganda, and socio-cultural perspective. The study regarding history and development of psychological operations will be explained using critical-literacy methods strengthened by literature review. This research finds that psychological operations are one of the ways that shown to influence human mindset and trait, or behavior to a specific target audience that supported by intertwining aspects such as communication, media, propaganda, and socio-cultural aspects that significant to the success of psychological operations of a particular country.
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Aim. Analysis of psychological factors and tools aimed at neutralizing the destructive effect on the psyche. Proposals for the organization of counter-defamation programs.
...Methodology. A specific example of organizing a foil of a psychological operations plan is considered. Analysis of destructive content (fake) materials has been carried out. The study used methods of included observation, generalization, content analysis and interpretation of the results.
Results. The patterns of psychological operations have been defined. The ways to neutralize their destructive influence are shown.
Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the theory and practice of counteracting psychological operations.
The story of the debate between Saadi and the contender is one of the best debates of Persian literature that has been repeatedly investigated, but debates as one of the techniques of psychological ...operations (the power of influencing the mind and mind of the audience indirectly and better transfer Concept and Thought) has not been analyzed. To this end, in this study, by identifying the components of the psychological operations available in the debate as one of the "psychological operations techniques" using the semiotics of Levi Strause's dual contradictions, Saadi's methods and approaches were pursued to achieve the desired goals. Been investigated. According to the results, Saadi, using the layout of the contradictions, with the purpose and the previous planning, in the form of a deliberate debate with his subtlety, his intuitive thought and thought to the audience, in the latent layer of the story (profound construction) Has transmitted. In order to achieve this, he has used the components of psychological operations in the form of a beautiful debate. In this way, Saadi has analyzed the contradictions of the conflicts and the contradictions of these two strata, and ultimately, with the adventures and disadvantages of both groups, the goal of balancing is reached in the face of social conflict. And introduces a new classification of these two strata to the audience
El presente artículo analiza la construcción de un fundamento clave del movimiento (o ideología) al que se le ha denominado “trumpismo” y que se relaciona con la política de drogas de Estados Unidos ...y su relación con México. En primer lugar, se describen los orígenes de una estrategia antinarcóticos y de seguridad fronteriza planteada por el expresidente Donald Trump en 2017 y amplificada por políticos afines y simpatizantes que consideran una posible intervención militar en México como estrategia electoral en el 2024. El presente análisis destaca los elementos de desinformación y propaganda de la estrategia trumpista y retoma el uso de operaciones psicológicas—planteadas desde la perspectiva de los manuales del ejército estadounidense y la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA, por sus siglas en inglés)—como instrumento de persuasión y mercadotecnia electoral.
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