{"id":9381,"date":"2021-05-17T23:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2021-05-17T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:07:54","slug":"pentagon-weighs-keeping-trump-era-change-to-psychological-operationssouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9381","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon weighs keeping Trump-era change to \u2018psychological operations\u2019South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThis story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Lara Seligman on politico.com on May 17, 2021.In the final months of the Trump administration, then-Defence Secretary Mark Esper quietly moved to let the military run influence campaigns \u2013 often called \u201cpsyops\u201d \u2013 more quickly and with less time for input from the State Department.The policy change, which eight people described to POLITICO, highlights tension between military\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3133847\/pentagon-weighs-keeping-trump-era-change\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThis story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Lara Seligman on politico.com on May 17,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}