"Joseph, I remember you worked on Harvard Crimson for a while, right?" John suddenly asked a completely unrelated question. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"That's right, when I first entered school, my father asked me to join the school newspaper, don't you know?" Little Joseph couldn't help but roll his eyes.

At the beginning, he was "ridiculed" by John because of this incident, and even had the nickname of F.D.R No. 2 for a time. Everyone said that Kennedy Sr., Roosevelt's "brainless fan", was deliberately letting his son imitate Roosevelt. (Roosevelt was also the editor-in-chief of "Harvard Crimson" when he was a student at Harvard.)

"Okay, can you help me look at this report, is there anything that needs to be changed?" John graciously gave his first draft of psychological warfare to Joseph Jr.

"Psychological warfare, this is quite new." Joseph Jr. was attracted as soon as he read a beginning: "Using the law of psychological changes in people's confrontational environment, through a large amount of information transmission, the enemy's morale is broken, the will to resist is weakened, and the enemy is given up resistance, evades battle, and even disarms and surrenders." ”

"I said, is that possible?" Joseph Jr. thought it was a bit too exaggerated. Without a gun, without a cannon, with psychological cues alone, to make the enemy surrender? That's too fantastic, isn't it?

Not to mention that Joseph Jr. doesn't believe it, in fact, few people in the U.S. military believe it now.

Although in later generations, the US military had a powerful psychological warfare force, and the army alone had an active psychological warfare brigade (the 4th psychological warfare brigade) and three reserve psychological warfare brigades, with a total of 12 psychological warfare battalions and 22 psychological warfare companies. However, at this time, the US military is still a complete layman in the new field of psychological warfare, which kills people without seeing blood.

Some old-fashioned senior US military generals have always held that it is despicable, shameful, evil, and inconsistent with the spirit of the Army to interfere with and influence a person's mind through fraud, fraud, intimidation, temptation, bribery, rumors, and other brainwashing methods to achieve the purpose of controlling his behavior. While acknowledging that these "evil" tactics have a certain effect on weakening the enemy, they insist that the Army should not be involved in such "despicable" politicians' tricks.

John is also speechless about these old fashions. More than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu knew: "A hundred battles are won, and those who are not good are also good; The soldiers who surrender without a fight, the good ones are also good." It's the 20th century now, and these people still have to play the game of gentlemen's war.

Besides, how can psychological warfare be evil. Isn't it quite noble to psychologically disintegrate the fighting spirit of the localities and achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight, and to greatly reduce the unnecessary casualties of both the enemy and us?

John really didn't understand the morality of these Puritans, didn't they ever look at advertisements? Essentially, what is the difference between psychological warfare and advertising is that it is psychological suggestion through the transmission of information to change the behavior of the audience. The only difference is that one asks for money and the other wants to die.

Compared with the dull and stubborn US military, Britain and Germany are much more mature in terms of psychological warfare.

During World War I, the two sides accumulated a lot of experience through "leaflet warfare". In 1920, the British military scientist Fuller first put forward the concept of "psychological warfare". Today, both Sir Reese (founder of the BBC and wartime Secretary of State for British Intelligence) and Goebbels are masters of the game.

It was in London that John saw the various psychological tactics of both sides and wrote this report. He felt that it was necessary for him to go back and remind Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff Marshall that he had prepared the psychological warfare department earlier.

To put it mildly, in history, McClure's kid was finally able to become the chief of the psychological warfare department of the American Expeditionary Force, and his promotion to the rank of general was purely the result of Eisenhower's selection of generals among the elves.

At that time, the British had already shown the power of psychological warfare to the top of the US military through cooperation in North Africa. Eisenhower wanted to build a psychological warfare force of his own, but no one had the experience to do so. McClure was fortunate enough to be the founder of the U.S. military's psychological warfare unit not because of how much he knew about psychological warfare, but because his career as a diplomatic attaché gave him access to a large number of media resources.

"So that's what happened!" As soon as little Joseph saw half of it, he patted his thigh excitedly and said: "I said why so many rumors of German parachutes suddenly appeared recently. ”

What amazed Joseph Jr. was one of the cases John cited in his report.

In this psychological war between Britain and Germany, the German radio station "Haha" is undoubtedly the brightest star among them, and at one time had nearly 8 million listeners in Britain.

The tactics used by "Haha" are very clever, and they never attack those clumsy false rumors that can be spotted at a glance. Rather, it is a large number of selective factual reports that make psychological cues to the British public.

For example, in recent times, the rumor that German paratroopers have landed somewhere on the island of Britain is derived from a true story of how German paratroopers disguised themselves as priests and deceived the defenders when they invaded the Netherlands.

The story was so real and wonderful that since that episode aired, the Home Defense Command came in and received false reports of German paratrooper landings every day. Many believed that they had been surrounded by disguised German paratroopers, and there were even rumors that they disguised themselves as nuns in Scotland and used a mysterious light-emitting weapon that could turn off car engines.

In this way, the Germans did not use a single soldier, leaving the British government and military scrambling and anxious about it. Even if they publicly arrested a man who spread rumours that he had seen 20 German paratroopers land in Kent, and fined him £25. However, this method of killing chickens and setting an example to monkeys has not effectively stopped the spread of panic among the people, but has made the people even more panicked.

"Interesting, I originally thought that propaganda against the enemy was lies and fraud, but looking at it this way, telling the truth is more effective, right?" Joseph Jr. became more and more interested in psychological warfare.

"That's right, the most important thing for psychological tactics to work against the enemy is not to let them find out that you are lying. If the other person doesn't believe what you say, then everything that follows is meaningless. "John's fear is that little Joseph is not interested in psychological warfare. Now he wants to take the initiative to discuss this topic with himself, and that couldn't be better.

"In other words, it's better to show the enemy a one-sided and selective reality, and also leave a moderate amount of room for the other party to imagine and play, right?"

John could hardly resist applauding Joseph Jr.'s inferences. Next, while drinking, the two of them had a lively discussion about the recent examples of psychological warfare on the battlefields of Europe.

As the discussion progressed, John felt more and more that Joseph Jr. was a good piece of material for psychological warfare. Many times, with a little guidance, little Joseph was able to say the answer he wanted. And little Joseph himself, the more he talked, the more excited he became, and his acceptance of psychological warfare became higher and higher.

In fact, little Joseph was still a little too young to find out that John was also engaged in a "psychological war" against him. Under John's quiet guidance, praise, and psychological cues, little Joseph began to feel that he was quite talented in this area, and had the urge to give it a try.

So, after the two drank the last bit of rum. When John asked if he would be willing to work with him on the report, and hinted that his purpose in writing the report was to suggest that the army's top brass prepare for the formation of a special psychological warfare unit, Joseph Jr. readily agreed.

It's done! After sending little Joseph out of the room, John's heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment. Wait for the report to be handed in, which he and Joseph Jr. co-signed. If the US military does not set up a psychological warfare unit, it will be forgotten. If it is true, little Joseph, the "professional" he has created, will definitely be recruited.

Once Joseph Jr. went to the psychological warfare unit, it is likely that he would not have died in World War II. If Joseph Jr. hadn't died, there would probably have been nothing more about John F. Kennedy. John must have changed American history today.