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Fact Sheet: Military Information Support Operations
Public Affairs Office, U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne)
Psychological Operations Regimental Insignia
Silver gray, white and black represent the three types of Military Information Support Operations; white represents the overt processes, black is for the covert and gray for the hidden. The laurel wreath symbolizes honor and achievement. The center device is adapted fromthe Psychological Operations collar insignia. The chess knight represents the ability to act obliquely and influence all types of warfare. The lightning bolt swords denote speed and the ability to strike anywhere.
Institue of Heraldry
Military Information Support Operations are a vital part of the broad range of U.S. political, military, economic and ideological activities used by the U.S. government to secure national objectives. Military Information Support Operations is the dissemination of truthful information to foreign audiences in support of U.S. policy and national objectives.
Used during peacetime, contingencies and declared war, these activities are not forms of force, but are force multipliers that use nonviolent means in often violent environments. Persuading rather than compelling physically, they rely on logic, fear, desire or other mental factors to promote specific emotions, attitudes or behaviors. The ultimate objective of U.S. Military Information Support Operations is to convince enemy, neutral, and friendly nations and forces to take action favorable to the U.S. and its allies.
Military Information Support Operations support national security objectives at the tactical, operational and strategic levels of operations. StrategicMilitary Information Support Operations advance broad or long-term objectives. Global in nature, they may be directed toward large audiences or at key communicators.
Operational Military Information Support Operations are conducted on a smaller scale. They are employed by theater commanders to target groups within the theater of operations. Their purpose can range from gaining support for U.S. operations to preparing the battlefield for combat.
Tactical Military Information Support Operations are more limited, used by commanders to secure immediate and near-term goals. In this environment, these force-enhancing activities serve as a means to lower the morale and efficiency of enemy forces.
Both tactical and theater-level Military Information Support Operations may be used to enhance peacetime military activities of conventional forces operating in foreign countries. Cultural awareness packages attune U.S. forces before departing overseas. In theater, media programs publicize the positive aspects of combined military exercises and deployments.
In addition to supporting commanders, Military Information Support Operation units provide interagency support to other U.S. government agencies. In operations ranging from humanitarian assistance to drug interdiction, Military Information Support Operations enhance the impact of those agencies’ actions. Their activities can be used to spread information about ongoing programs and to gain support from the local populace.
Military Information Support Operations units in the U.S. Army Reserve are language and culturally oriented. Seventy one percent of the Department of Defense’s Military Information Support Operatrions capability rests within USACAPOC (A)’s 2nd and 7th Psychological Operations Groups.