"US Army Psyop" is a subset of a subset of US government agencies.
Re:Psychological Operations
by boston_clone on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:23PM
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AFAIK, US Army Psyop does not belong to or is considered an "intelligence element" of the Army. We were often reminded that we don't do intelligence work, but rather information work / warfare.
Being a civilian, what does this distinction mean/imply?
[Edit] wording For -> Being.
Re:Psychological Operations
by pyinstallwoes on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:55AM
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I assume the distinction is:
1. Intelligence: building database. Lakes of warehousing metadata and then analysis of it.
2. Psyops: weaponized intelligence. Memetic warfare. Directly affecting the thoughts of clusters to whatever end is strategized.
Re:Psychological Operations
by jonnybgood on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:26PM
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It doesn’t work like that. You have to understand what set of laws an organization falls under. For example, even though NSA and Army is part of the DoD, they fall under different Titles of US Code which defines their authority.
While I agree at a conceptual level, I don't believe US Army Psyop to have a hand in any of that. However, the government as a whole is not exempt from that claim - see Operation Mockingbird, for example [0].
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird