Author: Alfred H. Paddock
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Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Alfred H. Paddock, Jr.
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898758432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Colonel Paddock traces the origins of Army special warfare from 1941 to 1952, the year the Armys special warfare center was established. While the Army had experience in psychological warfare, the major recent U. S. experience in unconventional warfare had been in the Office of Strategic Services, a civilian agency, during World War II. Many army leaders, trained and experienced in conventional warfare, hesitantly accepted psychological warfare as a legitimate weapon in the Armys wartime arsenal, but questioned the validity and appropriateness of the Armys adoption of unconventional operations. The continuing tensions of the cold war and hostilities in Korea resolved the ambivalence in favor of coordinating in a single operation the techniques of both types of warfare. Colonel Paddocks extensively documented work traces a portion of a brief episode in our Nations military hisotyr, but an instructive one. For the historian and military scholar, it provides the necessary backdrop for understanding the subsequent evolution of the Armys special warefare capability. For the national security policymaker, it suggests the value of the innovative impulse and the need for receptivity to new ideas and adaptability to change. John S. Pustay Lieutenant General, United States Air Force President, National Defense University

Author: Alfred H. Paddock
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Languages : en
Pages : 291

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This study examines the United States Army's activities in psychological and unconventional warfare during and after World War II to determine the impetus for, and origins of, the formal 'special warfare' capability created in 1952 with the establishment of the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. With the impetus of the Korean War, heightening cold war tensions, and the persistent pressures of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr., the Army created an unprecedented staff organization in early 1951: the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare (OCPW). Under Brigadier General Robert A. McClure, the OCPW guided the build-up of psychological warfare and formulated plans for the creation of an organization unique in the Army's history: the 10th Special Forces Group. Designed to organize, train, and support indigenous personnel in behind-the-lines resistance activities to 'retard' a Soviet invasion in Europe, the Group's true historical forerunner--contrary to the official lineage of Special Forces--was the Office of Strategic Services, not the Rangers or the 1st Special Service Force. To provide the necessary training, materiel, and doctrinal support for both conventional and psychological warfare, McClure convinced the Army to establish the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Author: Alfred H. Paddock (Jr)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780318201580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Author: Alfred H. Paddock
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Author: Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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This book is the product of experience rather than research, of consultation rather than reading. It is based on my five years of work, both as civilian expert and as Army officer, in American psychological warfare facilities—at every level from the Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff planning phase down to the preparing of spot leaflets for the American forces in China. (Paul M. A. Linebarger, Psychological Warfare) Contents: DEFINITION AND HISTORY: Historic Examples of Psychological Warfare The Function of Psychological Warfare Definition of Psychological Warfare The Limitations of Psychological Warfare Psychological Warfare In World War I Psychological Warfare In World War II ANALYSIS, INTELLIGENCE, AND ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION: Propaganda Analysis Propaganda Intelligence Estimate of the Situation PLANNING AND OPERATIONS: Organization for Psychological Warfare Plans and Planning Operations for Civilians Operations Against Troops PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AFTER WORLD WAR II The "Cold War" and Seven Small Wars Strategic International Information Operations Research, Development and the Future Military PsyWar Operations, 1950-53

Author: Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Psychological Warfare is a work by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. It presents different aspects to psychologic warfare such as its history, analysis of propaganda, planning and list some example cases of the subject post WWII.

Author: Psychological Warfare School (U.S.)
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Category : Military occupation
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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