Old psyops capabilities to reactivate - TW

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The psychological warfare department in the Ministry of National Defense is to be reactivated in the next two years, defense sources said yesterday.

The department was deactivated six years ago because military leaders considered it no longer to be of vital importance.

But the use of psychological warfare in the US-led war against Iraq became the subject of much discussion at the National Defense University and Fu Hsing Kang College (political warfare college) last year, forcing the military to reconsider its importance

Despite the decision to reactive the department, the ministry refuses to admit it might have made a wrong decision in 1998.

It has been a custom in the military that no military leader take responsibility for any wrong direction he or she has taken.

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