Perception management

Perception management is a term originated by the US military. The US Department of Defense (DOD) gives this definition:Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations. ... It is absolutely vital that the Perception Management campaign of the United States and its allies be coordinated at the highest possible level, that it be resourced adequately, and executed effectively. Properly coordinated, such a campaign could be a war-winning capability. When left uncoordinated, such operations will achieve only modest success, at best, and at worst, could seriously backfire. Even a poorly chosen word, used in the heat of the moment (e.g. 'crusade'), can have significant negative consequences. Perception management is a term originated by the US military. The US Department of Defense (DOD) gives this definition: 'Perception' is defined as the 'process by which individuals select, organize, and interpret the input from their senses to give meaning and order to the world around them'. This definition overlaps with the higher-order perceptual processes as defined biologically (the lower-order biological processes are in no way susceptible to management; these low-level processes include a great deal of underlying perceptual categorization performed prior to conscious categorization.). Components of perception include the perceiver, target of perception, and the situation. Factors that influence the perceiver: