tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841819670822716434.post3542721457091160158..comments2023-11-29T16:57:15.811-08:00Comments on PSYOP Regimental Blog: PSYOP and the New NATO StrategyLawrence Dietzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048092221343162724noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841819670822716434.post-87620363858093235982010-05-19T10:24:43.246-07:002010-05-19T10:24:43.246-07:00Thanks for the comment. Personally, I think a Comm...Thanks for the comment. Personally, I think a Commander should have as many options as possible. The issue is not so much the number of kinetic options but the thought process of the Commanders.<br /><br />Most Commanders think kinetic - they don't consider other options. Also the nature of the beast is that PSYOP is not organic to every unit so that having the PSYOP option is not available.<br /><br />Perhaps integrating PSYOP and influence training at Combat Arms schools for officers and NCOs would bring some PSYOP skills down to the squad and offer them the kind of non-lethal options that military police have to think about in crowd control.Lawrence Dietzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04048092221343162724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841819670822716434.post-42999435121759124242010-05-19T09:55:22.303-07:002010-05-19T09:55:22.303-07:00I've been reading your blog for a little over ...I've been reading your blog for a little over a year, and I've notices a theme in the strategic planning or not planning of PSYOP during that time from you. <br />I'm a reserve psychological operator, but a career social scientist. I've noticed that since WWII there seems to be a correlation between a states', or non-state actors', ability or willingness to use force and their willingness to use psyop. I haven't seen any studies done on the subject, but it may be as simple as the fact that we have military superiority, and don't seem to be shy about using it. Our enemies on the other hand are outgunned, so using propaganda and psyop is a much more appealing endeavor. They have been very successful in leveraging the social capital of various audiences through the use of the internet and compelling messages.<br />Perhaps if a commander had fewer kinetic options at his disposal, he would be more open to psyop. Investigating this would we simply a matter of coding for things like military tech., size, budget, and use of kinetic ops, with the reliance and use of psyop in a multiple regression model.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com