page_title: Psychological warfare
section_title: Term
hierarchical_section_title: Psychological warfare / Term
caption_attribution_description: US Army Specialists (SPC) Adam McDaniel, Alpha/Company, 9th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion, sets up a loudspeaker system in order to broadcast non-civilian interference messages to the local people in the town of Narizah, Afghanistan, during Operation Mountain Sweep, part of ongoing operations in Afghanistan conducted in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. SPC McDaniels weapon is a 5.56mm M4 carbine with a 40mm M203 grenade launcher attached.
context_page_description: The term psychological warfare is used to describe methods that military use in war-time. We may understand it as an attempt to influence the behavior/beliefs of enemy armed forces and/or foreign civilian populations. Psychological warfare has many similarities with propaganda messages.
context_section_description: The term "pychological warfare" has always been considered problematic and offensive. The use of military power is increasingly not any more on the level of an local armored conflict, but on the global basis using mass media. The NATO uses the term "psychological operation" (PSYOP).
  People are trying not to use the term "psychological warfare". They would rather use terms like "stabilisation" or "satisfaction".
caption: US Army PSYOP specialist sets up a loudspeaker system to broadcast messages to the local people of Narizah, Afghanistan
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