Psychological Warfare in South Asia

Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PSYOP), have been known by many other names or terms, including Psy Ops, Political Warfare, "Hearts and Minds", and Propaganda. Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audiences value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. Expressions such as psychological warfare or psywar, perception-management, precision-guided propaganda etc refer to the same techniques of influencing the minds of the people. This power has the hard and soft aspects. The hard aspect relates to creating in the minds of people negative perceptions of their state, government, society etc in order to sow the seeds of alienation. Psychological operations are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.. The book deeply highlights the diplomacy of China and its strategies.