THE PSYOPS &CIMIC BINOMINAL IN OPERATIONS (I)
THE PSYOPS &CIMIC BINOMINAL IN OPERATIONS (I)

Summary/Abstract: The authors point out the need for conflict prevention and crisis management, having as main finality the consolidation of governmental authority at central, regional and local level, law and public order restoration, and normalisation of economic life. In this respect, information operations are required to act and react both kinetically and non-kinetically, using all their available means, tools, techniques and capabilities. Among those, a significant role to be played belongs to the support elements, the so-called “force multipliers”, the Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) and the Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC), which can effectively promote the image, the mandate, and the legitimacy of the intervention force. Winning the sympathy and the support of the population for the military objectives will reduce the recruitment base of the insurgency and support to terrorist organisations, and, therefore, facilitate the conditions which enable the disengagement and withdrawal of the intervention force.

• Details
• Contents