Department of the Army PamphletThe Department, 1976 - Military art and science |
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4th PSYOP Group activities advisors American Armed Forces attitudes audience battalion behavior broadcasts Cameroon Chieu Hoi civic action civilian combat command communication Communist conduct coordination crisis cultural defectors Defense direct Director doctrine Dominican Dominican Republic economic effective effort enemy foreign policy function guerrilla important individual Information Agency institutions insurgents intelligence involved JUSPAO Korean leaflets mass mass media ment mission organization overseas personnel persuasive planning POLWAR population President problems programs propaganda propagandist psychological operations psychological warfare PSYOP officer PSYWAR public opinion Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty relations Research responsible role secretary Service situation social soldier South Vietnam Soviet Soviet Union staff strategic tactical target techniques terror terrorist tion troops U.S. Army U.S. Department U.S. Information U.S. Information Agency U.S. military USIA Viet Cong Vietnam Vietnamese village Washington Wilbur Schramm
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Page 122 - States to promote a better understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Page 442 - Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.
Page 78 - Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised.
Page 442 - American and hemispheric policy — this sudden, clandestine decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country, if our courage and our commitments are ever to be trusted again.
Page 83 - Communication is here meant the mechanism through which human relations exist and develop — all the symbols of the mind, together with the means of conveying them through space and preserving them in time.
Page 104 - Council shall be to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security so as to enable the military services and the other departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate more effectively in matters involving the national security.
Page 54 - Mass communication ordinarily does not serve as a necessary and sufficient cause of audience effects, but rather functions among and through a nexus of mediating factors and influences.
Page 127 - Agency shall be to submit evidence to peoples of other nations by means of communication techniques that the objectives and policies of the United States are in harmony with and will advance their legitimate aspirations for freedom, progress, and peace.
Page 133 - The mission of the United States Information Agency is to help achieve United States foreign policy objectives by (a) influencing public attitudes in other nations, and (b) advising the President, his representatives abroad, and the various departments and agencies on the implications of foreign opinion for present and contemplated United States policies, programs and official statements.
Page 113 - USIS staffs vary in size with the scope of the country program undertaken by the Agency. Operations are conducted in some countries at consulates and at outposts in consular districts as well as at the principal post.