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To: 68skylark
This has been a picture-perfect enemy PSYOP campaign.

Please help me with the 'PSYOP', I have no idea what you mean.
10 posted on 12/20/2006 4:26:44 PM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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To: Jaysun
Psychological Operation? I think.
11 posted on 12/20/2006 4:35:06 PM PST by CremeSaver
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To: Jaysun
Please help me with the 'PSYOP', I have no idea what you mean.

Sorry about the military jargon. PSYOP stands for "psychological operations." It means putting out messages (often with a hostile intention behind them) to influence the course of a war.

13 posted on 12/20/2006 4:42:38 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: Jaysun
For those who aren't familiar with the US Army PSYOP branch, it's fascinating.

They do leaflets, loudspeaker announcements, posters, radio and TV broadcasts (from specially outfitted Air Force aircraft) and lots more. In Bosnia, they do comic books to help warn little kids of the dangers of land mine.

In the Iraq invasion, they encouraged Iraqi troops to surrender.

When all else failed, they used the massive loudspeakers on their Humvees to blast heavy-metal music out to US combat troops preparing for battle.

16 posted on 12/20/2006 4:49:39 PM PST by 68skylark
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