United States Army's only active psychological operations unit is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and is a part of the United States Army Special Operations Command. (USSOCOM)The commander of United States Army Special Operations Command is Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is the component that controls the special mission units (SMU) of USSOCOM. These units perform highly classified activities. Admiral Eric T. Olson is the Commander of these operations.
The purpose of United States psychological operations (PSYOP) is to induce or reinforce propaganda favorable to U.S. military objectives. It can be used at the strategic, operational, also known as Psychological warfare, level or at the tactical level.
Psychological Operations (PSYOP, PSYOPS) are techniques used by any set of groups to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. PSYOPS are used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
American Military Psyops are NOT leagal in America nor can they be used against our political system, government or individual Americans. However there is a LOOPHOLE, they can publish or start a psyops rumor in a foreign country and that can be picked up and carried by the American Media. Using this loophole the American Military does use psyops against the government, political leaders and individual Americans.
There is a relatively simple way to pick up on American Military PSYOPS in America. Look at the byline at the bottom of the article and you will see a foreign name and or place of origin. Typically these articles are written by numerous individuals and rarely if ever by a single individual. It is doubtfull that these originated in any place except Fort Bragg but they are disguised to look as if they originatd in a foreign country by a foreign person. The names are often bogus or pseudonyms.
American Military PSYOPS are ALWAYS associated with a spectacular or hyped event.
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of military/Industrial power, and the growth of military/Industrial propaganda as a means of protecting military/Industrial power against democracy.
With the beginnings of the mass media in the 19th century, war rape was sometimes used as propaganda by European colonialists to justify the colonization of places they had conquered.
In the 21st Century mass murder propaganda as in a lone gunman or 9/11 is used by the Military/Industrial complex to justify war against another religion or country(s). Bernays coined the terms "group mind" and "engineering consent", important concepts in practical psyops.
Goebbels openly acknowledged that he was exploiting the lowest instincts of the German people — racism, xenophobia, class envy and insecurity. He could, he said, play the popular will like a piano, leading the masses wherever he wanted them to go. "He drove his listeners into ecstasy, making them stand up, sing songs, raise their arms, repeat oaths — and he did it, not through the passionate inspiration of the moment, but as the result of sober psychological calculation." PSYOPS.
American Military Psyops as the propaganda head of the military/industrial complex an entity which has no great respect for the law, behaves as though they are in power. They commandeer the media by sensational news of dubious fact which are never open to forensic discovery. The propaganda originates from abroad or from within their own bases.