Just this morning I read a 1980 paper by occultist, alleged child abuser, and US Army Major Michael Aquino From PS YOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory
Some interesting quotes from the paper:
Essentially you overwhelm your enemy with argument. You seize control of all of the means by which his government and populace process information to make up their minds, and you adjust it so that those minds are made up as you desire.
MindWar is the deliberate, aggressive convincing of all participants in a war that we will win that war.
MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe - neither through primitive "battlefield" leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics 11 - but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth.
These media are, of course, the electronic media - television and radio. State of the
art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the world such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago.
MindWar must target all participants if it is to be effective. It must not only weaken
the enemy; it must strengthen the United States. It strengthens the United States by
denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining and emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national interest in a specific war.
There are some purely natural conditions under which minds may become more or less receptive to ideas, and MindWar should take full advantage of such phenomena as atmospheric electromagnetic activity, air ionization, and extremely low frequency waves.
You can read the paper here
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-Mv-q4qGq8_TBPcwL/Michael+Aquino+%28US+Satanist%29+-+From+PSYOP+to+MindWar+-+The+Psychology+of+Victory+%281980%29_djvu.txt
Ooh, Michael Aquino. There's a rabbithole. What a freak. Thanks for the info.
The guys reputation makes such grandiose claims fall pretty flat. I can't even think of anybody more associated with evil. How does the worst PR in the world give anyone confidence in a guy that tries to explain how to get people to think how he wants?
The mind boggles.