Prediction of Political Action by Means of Propaganda Analysis

Abstract

The problems of the wartime content analysts in predicting the initiatives of an opponent through analysis of his propaganda is described. It is selected for discussion here for two reasons: first, the methodological approach to this problem went through an interesting development in the course of the war; second, in addition to the obvious practical interest of this problem at the time, it has a certain theoretical interest as well, since it bears upon the general question of the relationship of communication and action in the relations between nations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 22, 1955
Accession Number
AD0604973

Entities

People

  • Alexander L. George

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Domestic
  • Governments
  • Hispanics
  • Launching
  • Launching Sites
  • New York
  • Personality
  • Propaganda
  • Psychology
  • Public Opinion
  • Reasoning
  • Second World War
  • Sites
  • Verification
  • War

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.