Psychological Warfare In Vietnam War

“Psychological warfare- n. [after German psychologischer Krieg (1938 in the passage translated in quot. 1939); the more usual term is psychologische Kriegsführung (1958 or earlier)] the use (originally as a military strategy) of tactics intended to undermine the morale or allegiance of one's opponent or opponents, as opposed to physical force.” There were two types of psychological warfare that was used during the Vietnam War and those two tactics were tactical and strategic psywar. Tactical psywar is “typically an opportunistic operation whereby prisoners or those wishing to surrender in a combat situation are employed to make loudspeaker broadcasts to their comrades still fighting.” While strategic psywar is “ primarily involved leaflets which were dropped or otherwise distributed in three principal areas South Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail and North Vietnam.” These two strategies are under propaganda showing that psywar strategies were not just used in …show more content…
Although the purpose of psychological warfare is to do this no consideration was taking into the fact that what if it was permanent. What if these damages done to these group of people is not reversible? The effects of psychological warfare negativity out weights the positivity that the government felt like it did. It caused so much pain in so many lives because the war was not necessary. Psychological warfare may be very important when it comes to war it does not make it right at all. Psychological warfare is inhumane and it’s something that should really be reconsidered in doing when it comes to wars. It doesn’t build better lives it destroys so many and it’s not fair to those vets, the people that gotten their homes destroyed and the citizens to have to witness their very government taking the decision to step on another’s territory in their own hands for selfish and personal