Psyop soldiers celebrate 100 years
The first leaflets dropped by American troops in World War I were targeting German soldiers considering desertion.One side of the page published, in German, American orders on the treatment of prisoners. On the other side was information on American food rations that would be available to those prisoners.When American pilots dropped those leaflets in August 1918, they launched the nation’s first battlefield psychological operations campaign.One hundred years later, […]
