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psy·war

 (sī′wôr′)
n.
Psychological warfare.
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psywar

(ˈsaɪˌwɔː)
n
(Military) military esp US psychological warfare
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psy•war

(ˈsaɪˌwɔr)
n.
psychological warfare.
[1950–55, Amer.; by shortening]
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Joining us was Steve Haukness, a Foreign Service communicator and one of Tuy-Cam's colleagues at the Danang Consulate General who was visiting Hue as a tourist, and one of my Foreign Service Officer classmates, Steve Miller, who was working in Hue as a "psywar" officer with the U.S.
Psywar only gives intangible but important results that need to be synchronised with policy and national aims.
"Psywar" gained recognition early in the war when a group of Americans translated German documents indicating that psychology should be employed in all phases of combat.
Curiously, he displays no animosity for the CIA, despite his claims that the agency engineered a key defection and conducted "psywar" campaigns against India.
The illegal transfers were camouflaged within a larger Uruguayan military PSYWAR (psychological warfare) operation to portray the exiled activists as a terrorist invasion force threatening the state.
The book should really be subtitled "War reporting doesn't just suck, it kills." It makes you feel like demanding a special war crimes tribunal for corporate media executives and owners who joined the roll-up to "shock and awe" as non-uniformed psywar ops.
The EC-130E ABCCC (Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center) is clearly very different in equipment from the psywar EC-130E Commando Solo, which makes radio and TV broadcasts and is only flown by the Pennsylvania National Guard.
With major combat operations in Iraq at an end and with the elimination of patrols over the so-called "no-fly" zones, The camp served as a logistics center for US military operations in the Gulf and as a base for EC-130 Commando Solo psywar and other special-operations flights.
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