Psychological actions directed against troops and population during a military conflict are very important for the process of combat preparing and conducting. Psychological state of people participating in combat and those who are in a close or distant area of operation depends on many factors of both subjective character and non-man depending. Also the efficiency and effectiveness of psychological actions depend on various factors, the main tasks include recognising the enemy, gaining and collecting current and true information on the potential enemy’s soldiers and population concerning social, demographic and cultural aspects. The author proves that these statements are true by, on the one hand, presenting modern American opinions on the role of reconnaissance in psychological operations, on the other hand, by a certain historical reflection on the Russian Army experiences in this area during the Second World War. The main body of the article presents the concept of social-demographic and cultural reconnaissance for the Polish Armed Forces psychological operations needs.
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Society’s military preparation to war and getting civilian population’s acceptance, army in particular, to pursue politics was one of the main tasks that Hitler undertook after taking over in Germany. The Reich’s propaganda system played an exceptional role in that time. The analysis of Hitler’s Germany propaganda psychological endeavours directed to its own nation and enemy’s population and soldiers during the Second World War are the contents of this article. In Fascist period in Germany one party ideology was apparent in its military doctrine and society’s indocrination system. After establishing the Federal Republic of Germany and German armed forces, however, the leadership of the state did everything so that no decisions, either in the society or in the Bundeswehre, were connected with one party ideology and manipulation. The unknown character of future battlefield and connected with it complicated information situation determined setting up companies and battalions in the army to conduct propaganda and psychological actions. The structures, equipment and evolution of war and psychological defence subunits and operational information were presented in the second part of the article.
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The notions “psychological actions or activities” arise different associations in the Polish Armed Forces. It happens that some associate them immediately with very useful, particularly among conscripts, activity of unit commander aides for psychological prophylactics, the others, however, think of planning psychological-ill-functional actions influencing enemy soldiers and population in a probable armed conflict. Some others stress the problem of an appropriate shaping of their own soldiers’ morale and their moral - psychological preparation for fighting and difficult situations. Linguistic and subject-matter similarity undoubtedly makes it difficult to situate selective ranges or, in other words, organisational - functional areas directed to mental sphere and to attitudes of the own soldiers, and in wartime to enemy soldiers. The article presents the author’s considerations concerning psychologists’ activities in military units, soldiers’ moral and psychological preparations for fighting, psychological activities influencing a potential enemy during a probable conflict, and endeavours of, so- called, psychological defence. By providing a specific character of selective areas and presenting their basic methods, forms, tasks and similarities, the author wants to exclude any misunderstandings in interpretation.
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