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psychological warfare

military information operations aimed at promoting behaviour to assist military objectives
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Summary

psychological warfare ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,222 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: warfare[2], subversion[3]
  • Part of: crowd psychology terminology[4]
  • Commons category: Psychological warfare[5]
  • Target: government[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Psychological warfare[7]
  • Facet of: war[8]
  • Partially coincident with: cognitive warfare[9]
  • Has characteristic: propaganda campaign[10]
  • Has goal: reaction[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

Why It Matters

psychological warfare has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → psychological-warfare
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: psychological-warfare, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949696|psychological warfare (#289949696)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1QYT7v
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0434612-psychologicka-valka
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0434612-psychologicka-valka, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → crowd psychology terminology
    Has goal → reaction
    Facet of → war
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 8873, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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