Government spokesman: Psychological operations constitute real battlefield

Psychological operations constitute an actual field of real warfare in their own right. Nations and hostile actors employ sophisticated information strategies to manipulate public opinion, undermine trust in institutions, and weaken social cohesion. Awareness and critical evaluation of information sources are essential protective measures against these campaigns.

• Psychological operations target cognitive vulnerabilities through coordinated disinformation and propaganda
• Foreign adversaries exploit social media platforms to amplify divisive narratives and polarize societies
• State and non-state actors weaponize false narratives to delegitimize governments and institutions
• Information warfare campaigns employ deepfakes, fabricated evidence, and misleading context to distort reality
• Populations must develop media literacy and source verification skills to counter manipulative messaging. While traditional military operations involve conventional weaponry and physical conflict, psychological operations operate in the information domain with longer-lasting effects on societal stability. Unlike conventional warfare with clearly identifiable combatants and physical damage, information warfare blurs the lines of attribution and operates beneath the threshold of kinetic conflict, making it a particularly insidious and pervasive threat requiring constant vigilance.

# Psychological Operations are a Real Battlefield Themselves; Let Us Be Vigilant