perception management

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. See also psychological operations.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Anchorperson, Fahad Hussain, while sharing his thoughts said project management is equally important in the field of media which has to be applied in the form of content and perception management, be it news bulletins or programmes.

Human, not financial resources are real driver of Pakistans growth

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar stated this at a 2-day 'Strategic Perception Management Workshop'' for its Public Relations/Information personnel on Tuesday in Abuja,

NAF Trains Personnel On Strategic Communication

Hopefully, his team will take this seriously and take into account the information from the field in the 'various initiatives' taken for 'perception management', and in their in plans to deal with 'anti-vaccine propaganda'.

Fixing polio vaccine hesitancy

To counter the anti-polio propaganda and other programmatic challenges, provincial EOC initiated revamped communication and perception management strategy that included advocacy sessions with different stakeholders at provincial and district levels.

Media urged to create community trust on polio vaccine

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