propaganda

The numerous reports last week that around 1,000 Ukrainian Marines surrendered in Mariupol turns out to be just another Russian propaganda.

Whether you say “zee” or “zed,” Vladimir Zelensky wants the letter Z banned from global usage immediately. Yes, he’s serious. A Big Ask That’s right, Ukraine is asking the world to criminalize the use of the letter Z when used as a symbol of support for Russian aggression against their country. The irony isn’t lost […]

Creating an invisible phone, discovering a unicorn lair, writing 1,500 books in three years. Let’s have a look at some of North Korea’s claims.

The looming great-power competition will require us to rethink how we counter and use propaganda.

White supremacy in the United States has had an alarming rate of increased recruitment and activity in recent years.

An animated video, which is an obvious threat for the United States to get out of Iraq, was shown on al Etejah Television. The short 45-second video portrays American troops as occupiers and the fist of Kata’ib Hezbollah, wrapped in the Iraqi and Hezbollah flags, smashing American vehicles and tanks with the slogan, “expel the […]

In part two, we discussed America’s entry in the “Great War” and the need for propaganda on both the enemy and domestic home front. The Great War was perhaps the first use of what we define as Psychological Operations in a modern sense. But with the Armistice taking effect on November 11, 1918, both the […]

In part one, we reviewed the basic definition of Psychological Operations and its relations to standard propaganda. Psychological Operations is actually a relatively modern concept but had roots long before the advent of the 20th century. The United States government and military, with a few exceptions, did not effectively utilize propaganda or public relations during […]

Over the summer, social media platforms were inundated with images of just about everyone you know looking unusually old or like an attractive member of the opposite sex. This was all thanks to an extremely popular smartphone application called “FaceApp.” Despite first being launched in 2017, the app became a massive hit in recent months, […]

For years now, Vladimir Putin’s oft-touted modernization initiative throughout the Russian military has been a casualty of economic war with the West. As the Russian economy struggles under the weight of international sanctions, the nation’s most prominent military initiatives have suffered from slashed budgets and reduced orders—but you’d likely never know it if you’ve been […]

On Monday, Russia will conduct its first test of what they’ve dubbed “RuNet,” which will severe the entire nation from the global internet, isolating Russia from the rest of the world digitally. All internet traffic during the test disconnection will be re-directed through internal Russian state routing points and servers managed by Roskomnazor, the government’s […]

Perception has always played an important, and often understated, role in warfare. Before a nation can wage war on its enemies, it must first convince its populous of two things: the first is that an enemy indeed exists, and the second is that the threat presented by said enemy can only be mitigated through force. […]