In class last Tuesday we discussed the importance of detecting media bias and propaganda as future officers of the United States Army. The ability to discriminate between facts and opinions in media coverage and propaganda is paramount to maintaining the morale of the unit as a whole. There may be times when the wars we are fighting are not well supported by the general populace of the nation we are serving but we must not let these views effect the way we operate and compromise the mission. Propaganda is the use of a variety of communication techniques that create an appeal to the emotions of an individual to accept a specific belief or opinion, to adopt a certain behavior or to perform a particular action. There were nine different propaganda
