- Posted on 11 March 2010 at 12:14 pm
The PsyWar.Org aerial propaganda database has been updated today with more examples of PSYOP product.
- Posted on 10 October 2009 at 3:45 pm
- Posted on 2 April 2009 at 4:03 pm
8th Annual Information Operations Europe
Delivering Effects through Influence Activity
June 22 - 24, 2009 - Le Meridien Piccadilly, London, UK
The IO Europe conference series is back for the 8th year...
The human terrain has proven hugely important in current conflicts and the capabilities required to influence an audience have seen major developments in recent years. The employment of private sector expertise and new media tools such as online social networking have opened up new opportunities for the IO community, yet the challenges of developing a coherent and culturally astute message remain. Messages must also be coordinated in an often complex, coalition environment and the issue of Measurement of Effect still represents a significant obstacle to progress.
The Information Operations Europe conference series, now in its 8th year, is specifically designed for military staff engaged in influence activities to share key Lessons Learned from ongoing information campaigns, new concepts and policy updates and to understand how techniques for MoE are developing. It is the best attended and most international meeting of its kind in the world.
Guest Speakers for IO Europe 2009 include:
* Major General David Morris, Commanding General, US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne)
* Air Commodore Robert Judson, Director of Targeting and Information Operations, UK Ministry of Defence
* Mark Johnson SES, Executive Director, Joint Information Operations Warfare Command, US Strategic Command
* Mark Laity, Chief Strategic Communications and Special Advisor to SACEUR, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, NATO
* James Glassman, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy (Dec ’07 to Jan ’09), US State Department
* General Major Oleksandr LEVCHENKO, Head of Department of Defence Intelligence, Ukrainian MoD
* Colonel Glenn Connor, Chief IO Division, HQ US Africa Command
* Colonel Duncan Barley, Colonel Influence Activity, British Army
* Colonel Charles Eassa, Chief Information Operations Division, US European Command
* Colonel Dietger Lather, Commander, Psyops Centre, Bundeswehr
* Colonel David Haught, Director, US Army Information Proponent Office, Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate, Combined Arms Centre, US Army
* General Major Vadym Kokorin (Ret’d), Professor of the Intelligence Faculty, National Defence Academy of Ukraine, former Chief Military Intelligence, HQ Soviet Forces in Afghanistan (1986-1988)
* Simon Bergman, Director, Information Options
Again this year
PsyWar.Org is a proud media partner to the 2009 Information Operations Europe conference.
PsyWar.Org readers are eligible for a 10 percent discount by quoting the following reference number when registering for the event:
IGB_11591.003_PSYWAR
For more information visit the conference website here:
http://www.defenceiq.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=173906
- Posted on 8 February 2009 at 4:15 pm
The PsyWar Society has had two sad losses over the last month. At the beginning of January the co-founder and Honourable President of the PsyWar Society, Peter Robbs, died. He was 97-years-old and took a keen interest in the activities of the Society until the end. The last issue of Falling Leaf was the Society’s fiftieth anniversary edition and featured a tribute to both Peter Robbs and the late Reginald Auckland.
The second sad news came a few days ago when we learned of the untimely death of Hans Moonen, aged 48-years-old. Hans was a long-standing member of the PsyWar Society and was the first person to put a dedicated aerial propaganda leaflet website, (
http://ww2propaganda.eu), online in 1996. Hans was a good friend, and a kind, generous leaflet researcher. He had a great knowledge of the subject and was always willing to share his latest research. We both shared a deep interest in "black" propaganda and I am thankful for the help he gave with my forthcoming book on the subject. Just sad that he will not be around to see the fruits of his help when the book is published.
RIP Pete and Hans.
- Posted on 9 December 2008 at 8:25 pm
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How African-Americans have been exploited in enemy divide and conquer psychological warfare campaigns from World War I to Vietnam. |
- Posted on 30 October 2008 at 10:53 pm
 | Herb Friedman's massive Propaganda and Espionage Philately article has been updated again and includes new research regarding this Office of Strategic Services / Office of War Information black propaganda label featuring a parody of a Third Reich postage stamp. |
- Posted on 17 October 2008 at 4:11 pm
 | A 45-page report on the work of the Third Psychological Warfare Consolidation Team of PWD/SHAEF in north-western France between August 23rd to October 8th, 1944.
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- Posted on 15 October 2008 at 9:40 pm
 | This 24-page booklet was produced by the Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas in August 1944 and details the use of tactical psychological warfare against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. |
- Posted on 12 October 2008 at 5:18 pm
 | Psychological operations were a key Battlefield Operating System used extensively to support Unified Task Force (UNITAF) Somalia operations. In order to maximise the PSYOP impact, a joint PSYOP Task Force (JPOTF) under the supervision of the Director of Operations was established, PSYOP was integrated into all plans and operations and limited the PSYOP focus to the operational and tactical levels.
Throughout the course of Operation Restore Hope, thirty-seven different leaflets and over a dozen handbills and posters were designed, printed and disseminated. Over seven million leaflets were dropped over central and southern Somalia.
One hundred sixteen different editions of the UNITAF newspaper RAJO, which means “Hope” in Somali, were published. As many as 25,000 copies were printed and distributed daily to every town and villages where UNITAF forces were deployed.
This booklet contains exemplars of those printed products. Each represents the collective efforts of members of the UNITAF JPOTF who provided PSYOP support to Operation Restore Hope.
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- Posted on 9 May 2009 at 5:06 am
Sri Lanka's military says it has killed at least 14 Tamil Tiger fighters in a sea battle close to the final area of land fighting.
- Posted on 10 November 2008 at 9:34 am
South Korea activists who release balloons containing subversive information into North Korea are raising bilateral tensions, says the BBC's John Sudworth.
- Posted on 24 September 2008 at 4:57 am
Turkish singer Bulent Ersoy is defiant in court after being accused of turning the public against the military.
- Posted on 18 June 2008 at 7:26 pm
Chad and Sudan have become "brother enemies", but they are neighbours with many common traits, writes the BBC's Mark Doyle.
- Posted on 18 June 2008 at 2:56 am
In Turkey, a transsexual singer is challenging the country's idea of military service as a sacred duty for men, writes the BBC's Sarah Rainsford.
- Posted on 23 October 2007 at 4:40 am
The Sri Lankan military opens an investigation into how a Tamil Tiger suicide squad infiltrated an air force base.
- Posted on 26 December 2006 at 12:27 am
A leading light of US broadcasting Frank Stanton has died at the age of 98.
- Posted on 11 August 2006 at 5:04 am
Tamil Tiger rebels say many of their fighters have been killed as the Sri Lanka military opens a "new front" against them.
