The Pentagon will invest 300 million U.S. dollars over the next three years to produce pro-Western news programs for the Iraqi media, the Washington Post reported Friday.
It has signed contracts with four private companies for the task last week, according to it.
The U.S. military expects the plan to expand its "information and psychological operations" in Iraq far into the future, even as violence appears to be abating and U.S. troops have begun drawing down.
The move reflects a new U.S. thinking about the military's role in the war of ideas in recent years, as the result of a counterinsurgency doctrine in which information control is considered key to success.
Uniformed communications specialists and contractors are now an integral part of U.S. military operations from Eastern Europe to Afghanistan and beyond.
Iraq, where hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on such contracts, has been the proving ground for the new strategy.
Source: Xinhua
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