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Psychological Warfare
What better way to describe psychological warfare,
It breaks down to be, a war of words, right there.
Poetry has an advantage, to show it as unjust and unfair.
Throughout the ages, a war of words. We must be aware.
Julius Caesar had wildly exaggerated tales of his victory,
recited by servants in the streets of Rome, such trickery.
Napoleon used fake newspapers to convince an army,
of Austrian soldiers to give up and surrender harm free.
World war one saw both sides conducted air drops,
Over enemy lines to damage morale, pulling out all stops.
A German leaflet to the American soldiers said:
Stay in the war and chances you will get out of it dead.
During world war two militaries were using radio to do this.
UK targeted Nazi forces. Germany returned it without a miss.
Axis Sally aimed at US women, saying their men were sacrificed.
Being killed on orders of Roosevelt as he was profit enticed.
The Japanese spread propaganda via a station called Radio Tokyo,
Meant to demoralize American and allied soldiers on the show.
An English speaking Japanese woman called Orphan Anne speaks.
Many women performed this task, and their popularity grew in peaks.
Our troops called them all, Tokyo Rose, the show was called Zero Hour.
The voices would say : “Japanese soldiers love to watch you cower.
They are safe in their hiding places and caves with food and comfort too.
Your bombs can’t touch them, as they patiently wait to slaughter you.”
Propaganda came via American voices calling our soldiers boneheads,
Zero Hour became popular. The amusement of allied soldiers spreads.
Tokyo Rose became well known as she taunted the soldiers on her own.
The 2020’s, propaganda has matured and with social media has grown.
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