Definitions for psychological warfare
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. psychological warfare, war of nervesnoun

   the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale

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1. psychological warfarenoun

   The use of various techniques to demoralize or intimidate someone.

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1. Psychological warfare

   Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), have been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda. The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people".Various techniques are used, and are aimed at influencing a target audience's value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is 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. It is also used to destroy the morale of enemies through tactics that aim to depress troops' psychological states.Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals, and is not just limited to soldiers. Civilians of foreign territories can also be targeted by technology and media so as to cause an effect in the government of their country.There is evidence of psychological warfare throughout written history. In modern times, psychological warfare efforts have been used extensively. Mass communication allows for direct communication with an enemy populace, and therefore has been used in many efforts. Social media channels and the internet allow for campaigns of disinformation and misinformation performed by agents anywhere in the world.

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1. psychological warfare

   Psychological warfare is the strategic use of various tactics, such as propaganda, threats, psychological operations, and misinformation, to influence or manipulate the beliefs, emotions, behaviors, attitudes, or perceptions of individuals or groups, with the aim of undermining their morale, creating confusion or fear, fostering dissent or disloyalty, or promoting a specific ideology or agenda. This type of warfare often targets the psychological well-being of the enemy, but can be used against any population in order to achieve strategic, political, or military objectives.

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1. Psychological warfare

   Psychological Warfare, or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations, have been known by many other names or terms, including Psy Ops, Political Warfare, “Hearts and Minds”, and Propaganda. Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is 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. In Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jacques Ellul discusses psychological warfare as a common peace policy practice between nations as a form of indirect aggression in place of military aggression. This type of propaganda drains the public opinion of an opposing regime by stripping away its power on public opinion. This form of aggression is hard to defend against because no international court of justice is capable of protecting against psychological aggression since it cannot be legally adjudicated. The only defense is using the same means of psychological warfare. It is the burden of every government to defend its state against propaganda aggression. "Here the propagandists is [sic] dealing with a foreign adversary whose morale he seeks to destroy by psychological means so that the opponent begins to doubt the validity of his beliefs and actions." The tactic has long been used by hate groups such as the KKK in order to perpetuate their grasp on power and view of the world.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Psychological Warfare

   The manipulation of psychological influences, primarily concerned with morale, to strengthen the ability of one's own country and weaken the enemy.

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   The numerical value of psychological warfare in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of psychological warfare in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of psychological warfare in a Sentence

1. Hanan Yadin:

   I am not sure that anyone can stop this completely, this is a warfare game, psychological warfare – to instill fear and intimidation among the targets. It is also an effective and cheap tool to instigate and to recruit.

2. Yossi Melman:

   I stopped believing the reports from the official and semi-official media in Iran regarding the circumstances around the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, they are publishing various and even contradictory details : Assassins ? Motorcyclists ? A booby-trapped car ? A machine gun that fires automatically ? It seems to me that Iranian and Israeli intelligence to which this is attributed deals with psychological warfare, disinformation, and the obstruction of evidence.

3. Oriana Skylar Mastro:

   It’s more signaling and psychological warfare and a warning to the U.S. to not be so close to Taiwan.

4. Ramezan Sharif:

   The publication of such false news under the present circumstances is akin to psychological warfare.

5. Zhang Yanbing:

   Both retail and institutional investors become cautious in the absence of clear direction, think of this as psychological warfare; no one knows the direction for now, everyone is waiting for further good news to stimulate the market again.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=psychological warfare
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Psychological_Warfare
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Warfare
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=psychological warfare