PSYOP’s Top 5 Greatest Hits | #3 - Central Africa | PSYWAR Episode #37
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- On this special 37th episode, we were pleased to have military historian, Dr. Jared M. Tracy on the podcast to recount some of the most successful and interesting U.S. Army and Allied Psychological Operations of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Check out Dr. Tracy’s unofficial PSYOP greatest hit #3.
Guest Bio:
Jared Tracy is the Deputy Command Historian at U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History from Virginia Commonwealth University. He later received Ph.D. in History in May of 2012 from Kansas State University. Dr. Tracy specializes in twentieth century American history, with particular interest in the history of commercial marketing, advertising, and public relations; governmental propaganda and information programs; and military psychological operations. He is the author of many published works and most recently, his book, Victory through Influence: Origins of Psychological Operations in the U.S. Army.
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Great video, an important and often overlooked operation. History will, I think, look back on this very differently than the news does... Action in a place like Syria has a hard time acquiring the momentum to overcome all the vested interests keeping things burning. But in Central Africa, a little fire extinguisher in the hands of the locals made a very big difference...
I want to add, it's easy to hear about the small size of the LRA fighters and underestimate the impact those fighters had in the region. Kony used brutal kidnapping, enslavement, abduction, and brainwashing of abducted children to terrify local communities, and they responded disproportionately to the scale of the attacks. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions were displaced, abandoning their homes & farms to cluster in communities where they weren't subject to LRA raids. And those communities of displaced persons were then themselves punitively targeted...
Local politics played a huge role here. Kony exploited the legacy of the massive continent-wide 2nd Congo War and the South Sudanese civil war for cover, complicating regional efforts at coordination. Then when the Central African Republic collapsed, those sectarian and ethnic tensions became a viable seam for the LRA to exploit as well. And it should be noted, this exploitation went both ways-- because the LRA was operating on the ground in these areas, bad actors at the national level in Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic had an excuse to not provide security or governance-- and the UN missions to all three (four, depending on how you count it) could and did successfully argue it was outside their mandate, leading to backlash from local communities even today.
The small size of the group in no way eliminated the regional instability they caused. Just takes a little evil to prevent anything good being done, sometimes.
KONY 2012 WAS A PSYOP?
Idk. But he was most likely dead by 2012 from what I had read. He was very sick in 2009 and likely died around that time.