[bagster]

(NOTE: I'm not a Sun Tzu fan. China's great "Sage" warriors of their "Warring States" period, including Sun Tzu, are a bunch of deceiving back stabbers. This is SERIOUSLY DIFFERENT than the Warrior archetypes of American culture.)

THE HISTORY OF US PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS: WORLD WAR ONE

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With U.S.’s entry into the war in 1917, America quickly picked up the craft and learned the art of modern dissemination. Like the British, the United States set up different agencies to produce propaganda: the civilian Committee on Public Information (CPI) chaired by George Creel, and the U.S. Army Propaganda Section G-2D, General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, commanded by CPT Heber Blankenhorn.

PATTON’S GHOST ARMY

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The army General George Patton fielded for the 1944 Normandy D-Day Invasion was unlike any other. It was a complete and unabashed fake.

[Disestablishmentarian]

Intel is certainly a major factor in war and national security.

But the Chinese make a fetish of deception and double-cross as being superior to the more straightforward approach characterizing the American warrior psyche.

American generals seek the element of SURPRISE, not the element of double-cross.