The Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science at the University of Kerbala has organized a training course entitled “Current concepts about soft warfare content and content” through the electronic FCC platform, and with the participation of a large number of professors of Iraqi universities and some Arab countries.
The course aims at defining soft warfare, comparing it with psychological and media warfare, and the method used by planners, and change the convictions of the target group.
The session shows some soft warfare functions, including gaining and delegitimizing, sowing despair, frustration, and suspicions about symbols and beliefs, increasing the severity of divisions and conflicts, taking the enemy to the role of savior and preparing a ground for intelligence movement among the most important functions of soft war and soft warfare for managing war crimes.
The session recommends the need for faith and belief in the existence of soft war and its impact and knowledge of its goals in order to frustrate it and work to create a generation of specialized competencies in conscious cultural management and the development of media competencies and the manufacture of the alternative model as well as the establishment of a specialized studies center in smart and soft warfare and methods of attack and smart and soft defense.
