Political warfare
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Political warfare is the use of political means to compel an opponent to do one's will, based on hostile intent. The term political describes the calculated interaction between a government and a target audience to include another state's government, military, and/or general population. Governments use a variety of techniques to coerce certain actions, thereby gaining relative advantage over an opponent. The techniques include propaganda and psychological operations (PSYOP), which service national and military objectives respectively. Propaganda has many aspects and a hostile and coercive political purpose. Psychological operations are for strategic and tactical military objectives and may be intended for hostile military and civilian populations.
See also
- Active measures
- Active Measures Working Group
- Assassination
- Asymmetric warfare
- Coercive diplomacy
- Covert operation
- False flag
- Front organization
- Gunboat diplomacy
- Information warfare
- Insurgency
- Low intensity conflict
- Music and political warfare
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Netwar
- Passive revolution
- Political Warfare Executive
- Political warfare in British colonial India
- Propaganda
- Psychological Operations (United States)
- Psychological warfare
- Rules for Radicals
- Sabotage
- Social bot
- Trust Operation
- Unconventional warfare
- War of ideas
