Research on Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in Modern Warfare

Author: Wang Yudong
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Publish Date: 2013-07-01
Features: In the world we inhabit, which should be filled with equality, mutual assistance, charity, and kindness, echoing with laughter and joy, and enjoying the bliss of family life, traces of war are everywhere, and the smoke of battle still flares. The winding borders, the silent Great Wall, and the solemn monuments all tell stories of the past. The fierce competition over tiny islands, the refusal to yield over narrow strips of land, the successive emergence of various weapons, and the United Nations' "inability" to mediate all serve as warnings of the future. According to data released by the Swiss National Statistics Office, since 3600 BC, in less than 5,200 years, the world has witnessed more than 14,560 wars of varying sizes, and the number of years humanity has enjoyed peace without war is less than 300. These wars have brought severe disasters to humanity, with an estimated 3.64 billion people losing their lives in conflicts, far exceeding half the current world population. The direct economic losses caused by war amount to 215 trillion Swiss Francs, equivalent to a gold belt 75 kilometers wide and 10 meters thick encircling the Earth turning into smoke in the war. If these 5,000 years are considered as one day, then in 24 hours, 23 hours would be spent at war.