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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

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

Of that, they have to bring in about 650 active-duty soldiers to psychological operations per year.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 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