Nazi Germany's Mass Media Influence Approach: An Introspective Application to Twenty-First Century U.S. Psychological Operations Doctrine

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to conduct a historical, comparative case study between Nazi propaganda and current U.S. Psychological Operations, investigating how they utilize the joint principle of mass to effectively disseminate messages to influence a specific target audience (TA). Nazi Germany propagandists effectively massed multiple media dissemination means to message, saturate, and dominate the German information environment (IE) before and during World War II (WWII). Due to the ever-increasing complexity and number of Information Related Capabilities (IRC) within a given IE, U.S. PSYOP forces need an organized, categorical structure for means of message dissemination. These IRCs and means could then be massed, nested, and mixed to affect an IE for a specific target audience, thus increasing the chance of achieving effects, accomplishing an operational end state, and causing true influence or behavior change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 14, 2019
Accession Number
AD1105096

Entities

People

  • Trey C. Goodwin

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Channels
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Information Operations
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Organizations
  • Mass Media
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Propaganda
  • Psychological Operations
  • Reliability
  • Second World War
  • Social Media
  • Text Messaging
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design