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 ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges fellow Ukrainians not to fall to emotions and rumours and to trust the Defence Forces of Ukraine,as the Russian side uses the fear and anxiety of Ukrainian ...

The U.S. military uses psychological operations to complement physical military force by weakening the resolve of the enemy to fight. Psyops take into account human psychology and sometimes cultural ...

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

When people think about U.S. Army equipment, what probably comes to mind are tanks, gunship helicopters, self-propelled artillery, and other larger advanced weapons — all great for blowing things up.

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 ...

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 ...