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Psychological warfare

Here are entered general works dealing with methods used to undermine the morale of the civilian population and the military forces of an enemy country.

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• Psychology, Applied
• Social psychology
• War -- Psychological aspects
• Information warfare

• Propaganda

• Psychological warfare -- Case studies
• Psychological warfare -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Psychological warfare -- United States
• Brainwashing

• Operations, Psychological (Military science)
• Psychological operations (Military science)
• War of nerves

• Political Warfare and Psychological Operations: Rethinking the US Approach (1989), ed. by Frank R. Barnett and Carnes Lord (page images at Google)
• Psychological Warfare (second edition; New York: Duell, Sloan and Peace, c1954), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Simple Sabotage Field Manual (provisional Strategic Services field manual #3 (declassified); 1944), by United States Office of Strategic Services (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• US Army Special Warfare: Its Origins: Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952, by Alfred H. Paddock (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Essays on strategy : selections from the 1984 Joint Chiefs of Staff essay competition. (Washington, DC : National Defense University Press : Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. [distributor], 1985), by National Defense University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strategic communications and the battle of ideas : winning the hearts and minds in the global war against terrorists : hearing before the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held, July 11, 2007. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2009), by Unconventional Threats United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Terrorism (page images at HathiTrust)
• US Army special warfare : its origins : psychological and unconventional warfare, 1941-1952 / (Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by Alfred H. Paddock and National Defense University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bullets or words? A brief presentation of the mission, aims, and techniques of psychological warfare. ([Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1951]), by United States. Department of the Air Force. Psychological Warfare Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological operations in guerrilla warfare / ([Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1984]), by Tayacan, Tayacán. CIAs̓ Nicaraguan manual, and Library of Congress. Language Services Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological warfare. (Washington, Infantry Journal Press, [1948]), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of Red China Communes on the U.S. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Eighty-Sixth Congress, first session, on Mar. 24, 1959. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1959), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• The edge of war. (Chicago, H. Regnery Co., 1960), by James David Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological warfare field operations; special text. (Fort Bragg, 1953), by Psychological Warfare School (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new warfare. ([New York] Philosophical Library, [1954]), by C. N. Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behavioral sciences and the national security : together with part IX of the hearings ... / (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and pt. 9 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements. Winning the cold war; hearings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological operations. (Washington : [Dept. of Defense], Dept. of the Army, Headquarters, 1979-), by United States. Dept. of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chinese information warfare : a phantom menace or emerging threat? / ([Carlisle Barracks, PA] : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2001), by Toshi Yoshihara and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bullets or words? a brief presentation of the mission, aims, and techniques of psychological warfare. ([Washington] : U.S. G.P.O., 1951), by United States. Department of the Air Force. Psychological Warfare Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political warfare and psychological operations : rethinking the US approach / (Washington, DC : National Defense University Press in cooperation with National Strategy Information Center : US GPO [distributor], 1989), by Frank R. Barnett, Carnes Lord, and National Defense University Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological warfare in support of military operations; a bibliography of selected materials with annotations, (Washington : Dept. of State, Division of Library and Reference Services, 1951), by Gwendolyn E. Murphy and Patricia W. Angelo (page images at HathiTrust)
• German psychological warfare, (New York : Putnam, 1942), by Kimball Young and Committee for National Morale, ed. by Ladislas Farago and Lewis Frederick Gittler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctrine for joint psychological operations. ([Washington, D.C.] : Joint Chiefs of Staff, [1993-), by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological warfare; an introduction to ideological propaganda and the techniques of psychological warfare. (New York, William-Frederick Press, 1955), by Béla Szunyogh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Total war and the human mind; a psychologist's experiences in occupied Holland, ([New York] International universities press, inc., [1945]), by Joost Meerloo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychology for the armed services, prepared by a committee of the National research council, with the collaboration of many specialists, (Washington, The Infantry journal, [1945]), by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a Textbook of Military Psychology, ed. by Edwin Garrigues Boring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological warfare. (Washington : Combat Forces Press, [1955, c1954]), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art and science of psychological operations : case studies of military application / ([Washington, D.C.] : Dept. of the Army, 1976), by American Institutes for Research and Daniel C. Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• A psychological operations bibliography, ([Washington], 1960), by D.C.). Special Operations Research Office American University (Washington, Howard C. Reese, and Carl Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A background reading list on psychological operations with special emphasis on Communist China. (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of State, External Research Staff, [1964]), by United States. Department of State. External Research Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological and unconventional warfare, 1941-1952 : origins of a "special warfare" capability for the United States Army /, by Alfred H. Paddock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Psychological Operations: Principles and Case Studies (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996), ed. by Frank L. Goldstein and Benjamin F. Findley (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, by Tayacan (text at tscm.com)

• Psychological Operations: Principles and Case Studies (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996), ed. by Frank L. Goldstein and Benjamin F. Findley (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics (with Goff introduction, and Hubbard terminology in main text; ca. 1956), contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard and Kenneth Goff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, And Brainwashing (main text all present, bibliography incomplete; 1956), by Joost Meerloo (HTML at lermanet.com)
• Communist Psychological Warfare (Brainwashing): Consultation With Edward Hunter, Author and Foreign Correspondent, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, March 13, 1958 (Washington: GPO, 1958), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, contrib. by Edward Hunter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard (HTML and PDF with commentary at xenu-directory.net)
• Brave New World Revisited (c1958), by Aldous Huxley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination and Exploitation of American Military and Civilian Prisoners : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Eighty-Fourth Congress, second session, on June 19, 20, 26, 27, 1956. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1956), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cults : a conflict between religious liberty and involuntary servitude? / ([Washington, D.C.?] : Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, [1984?]), by Orlin D. Lucksted, D. F. Martell, and United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brainwashing, from Pavlov to Powers. (New York, Bookmailer, 1962), by Edward Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brainwashing; the story of men who defied it. (New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]), by Edward Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communist interrogation, indoctrination, and exploitation of American military and civilian prisoners. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China (first edition; New York: W. W. Norton and Co., c1961), by Robert Jay Lifton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cosmic Saboteur, by Frank M. Robinson, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Easy Does It, by E. G. Von Wald, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Men of Boru, by Jack A. Nelson, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Place Where Chicago Was, by Jim Harmon, illust. by Cowles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Earth Alert!, by Kris Neville, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Propaganda and Psychological Warfare (New York: Random House, c1962), by Terence H. Qualter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propaganda Handbook (second printing; Media, PA: 20th Century Pub. Co., 1955), by D. Lincoln Harter and John Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is Propaganda? (1944), by Ralph D. Casey (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)
• Brave New World Revisited (c1958), by Aldous Huxley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Vier Jahre Lüge (in German; Berlin: Verlag Neues Vaterland, 1919), by Emil Julius Gumbel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups (1954), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Publicity: Some of the Things It Is and Is Not (New York: Industries Publishing Company, 1925), by Ivy L. Lee (page images at loc.gov)
• Free Thought and Official Propaganda (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1922), by Bertrand Russell
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Free Thought and Official Propaganda (London: Watts and Co., 1922), by Bertrand Russell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, and Communist Control Act of 1954 ... / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1969), by Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service and United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• A reference guide to the study of public opinion, (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1934), by Harwood L. Childs and Princeton University. School of Public Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Attorney General to the Congress of the United States on the administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, for the period from ... (Washington, D.C. : Dept. of Justice, 1945-), by United States Department of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slogans as a means of social control / (New York : American Sociological Society, 1921), by Frederick Elmore Lumley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States : transcript of proceedings, Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, Public Law 601 (section 121, subsection Q(2)) February 6, 1947. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1947), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of Un-American propaganda activities in the United States : hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session- Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, on H. Res. 282, to investigate (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation ... : Executive hearings. (Washington : G.P.O., 1940-1943), by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pointing a finger at press propaganda ([New York, America press, 1938]), by John A. Toomey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La propagande révolutionnaire / (Londres : Impr. S. de Graag ; Bruxelles : Dépôt général, Sacré-Duquesne , 187-?]), by Eugène Vermersch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Third International on its changes of policy; a study of political communication. (Washington, 1942), by Nathan Leites (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is propaganda?, by United States War Department and American Historical Association. Historical Service Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der Demagogik. (Berlin, J. Springer, 1905), by Rudolf Bartels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four working papers on propaganda theory: Spiritual mobilization, the Japanise concept of propaganda, ([Urbana], 1955), by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Institute of Communications Research, Wilbur Lang Schramm, and Hideya Kumata (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military propaganda : special text. (Fort Bragg, N.C. : The School, 1953), by Psychological Warfare School (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propaganda, agitation, reklame : eine theorie des gesamten werbewesens / (Berlin : G. Stilke, [c1923]), by Gerhard Schultze-Pfaelzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliography on censorship and propaganda, (Eugene, The University, [1928]), by Kimball Young and Raymond D. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satellite Broadcasting: Implications for Foreign Policy : hearings before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ninety-First Congress, first session, on May 13-15, 22, 1969. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1969), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agents of foreign principals and of foreign governments. : Laws and regulations administered by the secretary of state governing the registration of agents of foreign principals and the notification of agents of foreign governments. (Washington : U.S. Govt. print. off, 1939), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Registration of agents of foreign principals. : Rules and regulations prescribed / (Washington : U.S. Govt. print. off, 1938), by United States Department of State and no. 1209 United States. Department of State. Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expanded international information and education program : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, second session, on S. Res. 243, a resolution favoring an expanded international information and education program by the United States. July 5, 6 and 7, 1950. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communist propaganda activities in the United States. Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, first session ... (Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propaganda in its military and legal aspects. ([Washington] : Military Intelligence Branch, Executive Division, General Staff, [1918?]), by United States. War Department. General Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on propaganda in the schools. Presented at the Atlanta meeting of the National education association, July, 1929. ([Washington, D.C., 1929]), by National Education Association of the United States. Committee on propaganda and Edwin Cornelius Broome (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to public opinion, (New York, J. Wiley & Sons, inc.; London, Chapman & Hall, limited, 1940), by Harwood Lawrence Childs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the use of information materials. ([Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1942]), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Individual training : defense against enemy propaganda / (Washington, D.C. : Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1954), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Communist propaganda activities in the United States. (Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense against enemy propaganda. ([Washington, D.C.] : [Headquarters, Dept. of the Army], [1963]), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die propaganda als politische instrument, (Berlin, Trowitzsch & sohn, 1921), by Edgar Stern-Rubarth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocherednoĭ vopros revoli͡utsīonnago diela. (Zheneva, Tip. Grupi starykh narodovolʹt͡sev, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Advertising : theory and practice. (Chicago : Irwin, 1945), by C. H. Sandage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Investigation of communist propaganda : hearings before a special committee to investigate communist activities in the United States of the House of representatives, Seventy-first Congress, second session, pursuant to H. Res. 220, providing for an investigation of communist propaganda in the United States. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1930-31), by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• What next America? A guide book for the average citizen in these troubled times. (Indianapolis, M. Droke, [c1940]), by Maxwell Droke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Psychological warfare operations in occupied and liberated areas; special text. (Fort Bragg, 1953), by Psychological Warfare School (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dies committee; (Washington, : The Catholic university of America press, 1943), by August Raymond Ogden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Political myths and economic realities, (London, N. Douglas, [1927]), by Francis Delaisi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Power ethics; an analysis of the activities of the public utilities in the United States, (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1931), by Jack Levin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychology, the third dimension on war, (New York, Columbia university press, 1942), by Carroll C. Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Propaganda als politisches Instrument. (Berlin, Trowitzsch, 1921), by Edgar Stern-Rubarth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Propaganda and education / (New York City : Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1932), by William Wishart Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• War propaganda and the United States, (New Haven, Yale university press, 1940), by Harold Lavine, James A. Wechsler, and Institute for Propaganda Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propaganda analysis, an annotated bibliography, (Columbus, Ohio, Bureau of educational research, the Ohio state university, 1940), by Edgar Dale and Norma Wynne Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus diplomatischen Fälscherwerkstätten; eine dokumentärische Darstellung des lügenfeldzuges gegen Sowjetrussland. ... (Berlin, Neuer deutscher Verlag, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The public mind; its disorders: its exploitation. (London, Noel Douglas, 1926), by Norman Angell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La technique de la propagande pacifiste, ([s.l. : s.n., 1914?]), by Arthur Müller and International Peace Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sensational journalism and the law (Boston, 1903), by George W. Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Coughlin, his "facts" and arguments. ([New York, Pub. by American Jewish committee..., 1939]), by Charles E. Coughlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art and science of psychological operations : case studies of military application / ([Washington, D.C.] : Dept. of the Army, 1976), by American Institutes for Research and Daniel C. Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy versus the totalitarian state in Latin America /, by Samuel Guy Inman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States (Gerald L. K. Smith) Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 5, to investigate (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation. January 30, 1946, at Washington, D.C. ... (Washington : U.S. Govt. print. off., 1946), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Group leader's guide to propaganda analysis; (New York city, Institute for propaganda analysis, inc., 1938), by Institute for Propaganda Analysis and Violet Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Road of propaganda; the semantics of biased communication. (New York, Philosophical Library, [1959]), by Karin Dovring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Global psychological conflict. (Washington : Industrial College of the Armed Forces, [1961?]), by Ralph Sanders and Fred R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of bibliographies on propaganda / (Washington, D.C. : The Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography, 1940), by Grace Hadley Fuller and Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocherednoĭ vopros revoli͡ut͡sīonnago di͡ela. (London, Printed by the "Russian press fund,", 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• High power propaganda, (New York city, New republic, inc., [c1928]), by Stephen Raushenbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publicity; some of the things it is and is not, (New York, Industries Publishing Company, 1925), by Ivy L. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• European war pamphlets. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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