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The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968 /

"The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968, for the first time fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOP) in American history. In PSYOP, US military personnel use a variety of tactics--mostly audio and visual messages--to influence individuals and gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Mervyn Edwin, III (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exciting a spirit of disaffection
  • Cold War developments
  • America's "special war," 1960-1962
  • Buddhist crisis and coup, Spring
  • Fall 1963
  • "Only the hard ones lie ahead", 1964
  • Organizational problems, Fall 1964
  • Winter 1965
  • Expansion, Spring and Summer 1965
  • Refined and expanded targeting, Fall 1965
  • Second Republic surge, Spring and Summer 1966
  • Growing pains, Fall 1966
  • May 1967
  • Measuring effects, June
  • Fall 1967
  • The 4th PSYOP group and the Tet Offensive, Fall 1967
  • Conclusion.