Asha Rangappa Quotes

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

Modern war has become a struggle for men's minds as well as for their bodies

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

Utilize undercover officers to distribute misinformation within the crowds

A hit and run propagandist on the Kremlin model.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology.

It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

There are no civilians in 21st-century warfare because the hottest battlefield is the public mind. The front runs between your ears, between your neighbor’s, between mine. The enemy’s objective (and the enemies are numerous) is to capture our thoughts and convictions. Belief is an immensely potent prize.

I worry that, as a country, we’re too slow to armor ourselves against ma­nipu­la­tion — and too quick to believe anything that confirms our biases or stokes our resentments. Deepfakes are designed to sap our belief in our institutions and in one another, ultimately bleeding the morale that secures the nation.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very, very valuable. This is an important tool in gathering up information.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.