The U.S. has supported Ukraine in its fight against Russian invaders by supplying the country with weapons and slapping harsh sanctions against Russia. But despite U.S. support, the conflict has only ...

“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him,” Sun Tzu wrote in the 4th century, one of those warfare aphorisms that the modern-day U.S. Army has adopted as part of its psychological ...

The Pentagon defines Psychological Operations as intended “. . . to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ...

As the grueling, four-month battle for the industrial city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine culminated in mid-February, the Russian armed forces—which up to that point mostly had relied on glide-bombs, ...

EU President Ursula von der Leyen and others have correctly diagnosed Belarus’ use of migrants as part of a “hybrid attack” against Europe’s democracies. But most have missed a key component of this ...

The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upshot has learned. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS ...

"A target audience, whether an enemy or friend, domestic or foreign, will always perceive something from the way in which a government or armed force postures itself, and will act on that perception.

During the U.S. government’s decade-long support of the Contra rebels who waged an armed campaign against Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista regime in the 1980s, the CIA funneled all manner of assistance ...

Even as massive airstrikes pummeled downtown Baghdad Friday, formally ushering in what the Pentagon termed its “shock and awe” campaign, many analysts argued that the enduring legacy of this war may ...

Well in advance of any military invasion of Iraq, the United States has already deployed a weapon that recognizes the key nature of human psyche to the ultimate unfolding of any military campaign: ...