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In sämtlichen aktuellen Konflikten werden PsyOps eingesetzt, so auch in Afganistan:

“Grün heißt gut, rot ist böse: Die Plakate, die das Team für psychologische Operationen (PsyOps) im Camp Holland entwerfen, sind bewusst einfach gehalten. Sie sind Teil der Strategie, die Köpfe und Herzen der Menschen zu gewinnen und damit eine unblutige Schlacht gegen die allgegenwärtigen Taliban zu führen. Früher nannte man das Propaganda. Der Leiter des Teams, Major Gradus, sieht sich eher als Werbeagentur für die holländischen Truppen im Süden Afghanistans.” weiter lesen…..

http://www.welt.de/politik/article1037900/Ba..._die_Burka.html

Those programs developed by combatant commands, in coordination with the chiefs of US diplomatic missions, that plan, support, and provide for the conduct, during military operations other than war, of psychological operations in support of US regional objectives, policies, interests, and theater military missions. Also called OP3. (Approved for inclusion in next edition of Joint Pub 1-02)

http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/#pro

Any form of communication in support of national objectives designed to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, or behavior of any group in order to benefit the sponsor, either directly or indirectly. (Joint Pub 1-02)

http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/#pro

Psychological operations conducted in foreign areas inhabited by an enemy or potentially hostile populace and occupied by United States forces, or in which United States forces are based, designed to produce behaviors by the foreign populace that support United States objectives in the area. (Joint Pub 1-02)

http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/#pro

The activities of a commander that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between military forces and civil authorities, both governmental and nongovernmental, and the civilian populace in a friendly, neutral, or hostile area of operations in order to facilitate military operations and consolidate operational objectives. Civil affairs may include performance by military forces of activities and functions normally the responsibility of local government. These activities may occur prior to, during, or subsequent to other military actions. They may also occur, if directed, in the absence of other military operations. (Joint Pub 1-02)

http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/#pro