British Psychological Operations History

So the history of British Psychological Operations known as PsyOps from 1899 onward, encompasses various military and governmental initiatives aimed at influencing opinions, behaviours, and beliefs both domestically and internationally.

In this series I will cover the Boer War 1899 to 1902, WW1 1914 to 1918, between the two World wars 1918 to 1939, WW2 1939 to 1945, post WW2 1945 to present looking at conflicts from the Cold War, Far East, Middle East, Africa, Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.

This isn't a comprehensive series but from my own research and in the later episodes my personal experience where I served on 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group from 1999 to 2009 covering 2 tours of Kosovo, Macedonia, 3 tours of Afghanistan and 1 tour of Iraq.

If you have questions just put them in the comments and I will get back to you of cover it in a live Q & A during the series.

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Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome to the Tim Heale Podcast. If you have the time, you can not only listen to the episodes, but you can also watch all the shows and you'll find the links in the description below. thank you. 

Welcome to British Psychological Operations History. My name's Lord Tim Heale and I'm gonna be taking you through this series. A little bit about me and my background. I joined the British Army a long time ago, and in 1999, I was transferred into 15 UK Psychological operations Group based at Chicksands. 

While there, I did seven operational tours. In 10 years, I did two tours of Kosovo. I did Macedonia, And. I was in Macedonia when nine 11 happened. Five months later, I flew into Kapal on my first tour of Afghanistan in 2003, I did a tour of Iraq, and then I did two further tours of Afghanistan in 2006, seven and eight, nine. 

So I have a good idea of what Psychological operations is all about. But this series, I'm gonna go way back to 1899 through to 1902, and look at the Boer War and what British influence had during that campaign. I'm gonna be looking at the First World War from 1914 to 1980. Gonna look at the Interwar years from 1918 to 1938. 

Then we'll have a real concentration on the Second World War from 1936 through to 1946, because a lot happened. A lot of developments happened in that period of time. We're gonna look at a post-war years, the Cold War, what was going on with Russia and America. We're gonna look at the Far East. We'll look at places like Borneo, Hong Kong, Malay Korea. 

We'll look at Africa. We look at the Sue, we look at Kenya, we look at Sierra Leone, we look at the Balkans War during the nineties. We look at the first Gulf War. We look at the Falklands War, and we'll finish off with the UpToDate stuff of what I was doing on my tours in Psychological operations. 

If you wanna come along on this journey with me, 

Speaker 1 (2m 59s): Subscribe to the channel, hit the like button. If you have any questions as we go through the series, put 'em in the comments box. I'm also hoping to do some live Q and as during the, during the series, and you're most welcome to join in on those. So this is gonna be a fairly in depth look at British, Psychological corporations, and the history of it through the last century or so. 

So until the next one, until we start the series TTFN tartar. For now. 

Welcome to the Tim Heale Podcast. If you have the time, you can not only listen to the episodes, but you can also watch all the shows, and you'll find the links in the description below. thank you.