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| US Modernization of PSYOP |
| 2026-08-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Some text taken from the web page of Small Wars Journal Material taken from the Telegram channel of budni_manipulyatora5 Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin [ColonelCassad] The Pentagon is preparing for the next PSYOP modernization. The following is an excerpt from a policy publication on the US military's specialized portal: The Army must make information the core combat function in multi-domain operations. Merging information and space operations units is, at best, an administrative exercise in establishing order. The merger does not create new capabilities or improve the existing capabilities of the Army's combat forces. To implement a truly transformational approach, the Army must make information technology the seventh combat function, create capable information units at combat headquarters, equip conventional forces with their own information formations, and conduct information technology training at the echelon, both within professional military education and at combat training centers. The war in Ukraine continues to demonstrate the need to elevate information to a central position in operations and planning. The most important battlefield variable that enables commanders to translate information capabilities into results is not technology, but organization. Information and space capabilities are only useful when the force has the structure to utilize them in combined arms maneuvers. Russia is demonstrating how a disjointed military staff is unable to translate its advantages in information warfare into tangible results on the battlefield. WHY IO AND PSO MUST BE UNIFIED : First, the army's information capabilities are currently scattered "across various commands, branches of the armed forces, and centers of excellence," and a single branch of the armed forces ensures unity where fragmentation previously existed. Second, the training of psychological operations specialists must be modernized, abandoning the focus on countering radicalization necessary to support the global war on terrorism in favor of large-scale combat operations. Third, by integrating the areas of information operations and psychological operations, the army will produce officers capable of both planning and conducting psychological operations and integrating information into operational processes. Ultimately, such officers and such information structures should become an integral part of multi-domain commands that are capable of independently conducting multi-domain operations, including in information and cyberspace. |
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