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psychological operations

British  

plural noun

  1. another term for psychological warfare

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Padrino is a 62-year-old general who in the 1990s briefly trained in psychological operations in Georgia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Kyiv and Seoul have discussed conducting psychological operations along the frontline to encourage the men to surrender.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

“I think what he does with ‘Ghost in the Machine’ is it tells you what psychological operations is, and shows you it, without telling you in words,” said Crowe.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

Dr. King was a master strategist with a keen understanding of optics management and psychological operations.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024

Written documents, then, are not, as material documents66 are, valuable by themselves; they are only valuable as signs of psychological operations, which are often complicated and hard to unravel.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey