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WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Army has dropped the Vietnam-era name “psychological operations” for its branch in charge of trying to change minds behind enemy lines, acknowledging that the term can sound ominous.
The Defense Department picked a more neutral moniker: Military Information Support Operations.
U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw said Thursday that the new name, adopted last month, more accurately reflects the unit’s job of producing leaflets, radio broadcasts and loudspeaker messages to influence enemy soldiers and civilians.
