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No. 87
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PsyOp is applied on most levels of military operations, to some extent. It only becomes properly known as a PsyOp effort at a higher level, or in a field where it is deemed situationally applicable and performed by those with the training/clearance to do so. However, it's often as simple as interview techniques with civilians on the battlefield by a small unit leader or member, or the outward posture of a unit while dealing with a potentially integral or threatening party (handing out candy to kids VS. mean-mugging with weapons at the high ready). At the lower levels, its simply part of standard operating procedures, and usually serves moreso to complete the mission at hand then to collect intel/propogandize. It becomes the realm of passive counter-intel to those who give the orders, and usually the effects are not immediately seen at that level.
PsyOp in direct support of interrogation operations rarely happens at the lower levels, unless operational tempo dictates hasty intel gathering, and the like. Being the shiny side of the coin, it is the most common 3 or more tier exploitable method (ie.: we exploit the intel from the subject, subjects comrades exploit us through news media, news media effects morale of both sides).
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