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psychological operations

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plural noun

  1. another term for psychological warfare

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

There is a large amount of public information available about how to effectively counter propaganda and psychological operations.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

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

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

It’s illegal for the U.S. military to conduct psychological operations on Americans.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024

The immense majority of the documents which furnish the historian with starting-points for his reasonings are nothing else than traces of psychological operations.

From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry

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