How do you hire and trust people to perform PsyOps?
Presumably they'd know what levers you're pulling, and they may be able to pull the same levers in YOU.
Is it just a pay cheque and finding people who already believe what you believe?
Presumably they'd know what levers you're pulling, and they may be able to pull the same levers in YOU.
Is it just a pay cheque and finding people who already believe what you believe?
Manipulation and influence can look very similar, and naturally skilled manipulators tend to go elsewhere (I think there's enough research about career preference and correlation of "dark triad" traits to substantiate this).
In my experience, most of the enlisted folks doing PsyOp had little idea of what it truly involved when they first began; however, the Army remains eager to redirect the passion of 20 year olds into counterinsurgency / foreign policy tactics.
Virtually all of the motivations of folks I knew could be abstracted to "things are truly bad for these people; how can we fix it?".