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….The Chinese thinking on psychological operations continues to advance and expand. In a recentbackgrounder, Dean Cheng notes, “Successful coercive psychological warfare is the realization of ends for which one is prepared to go to war without having to take that final step and engage in active, kinetic, destructive warfare. From the Chinese perspective, given the destructiveness of nuclear weapons and even conventional forces, there is also significant incentive to develop coercive psychological approaches in order to achieve strategic ends without having to resort to the use of force.”
….Is it possible to defend a nation against widespread psychological operations? The Chinese believe so. Cheng describes one of five broad tasks:
Implementing Psychological Defenses. Since psychological warfare can have such far-reaching impacts, in the Chinese view, it is assumed that an opponent will mount psychological attacks. Consequently, in addition to negating or neutralizing such attacks, it is necessary to expose them, both to defeat them and to demoralize an opponent by demonstrating the ineffectiveness of his efforts. Thus, not only must there be counter-propaganda activities, but one must also publicize enemy machinations and techniques, thereby exposing and highlighting their futility.
Defense News (Freier & Guy) – Future of Ground Forces:Planners Must Evolve Beyond Past Wars
If you like this short riff, it is drawn from a more comprehensive CSIS report
John Arquilla –How Chess Explains the World and Founding Insurgents
Marine Corps Gazette Blog (Brett Friedman) –Back to the Future Part One, Back to the Future Part 2 and Back to the Future Part 3: Amphibious Raiding
War on the Rocks (Frank Hoffman) – Forty Shades of Gray
Feral Jundi –Industry Talk: Bancroft Global’s Bet On Peace In War-Torn Somalia
DoDBuzz –Generals: ‘Human Domain’ Will Dictate Future Wars
Global Guerrillas – China: The Watermelon Revolution
Scholar’s Stage –Despots Near and Despots Far
Steven Pressfield Online –Art is Artifice, Part Two
WPR (Steve Metz) –Strategic Horizons: America’s Limited Leverage in Afghanistan
Slightly East of New –Temporary insanity
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