""Influence operations are focused on affecting the perceptions and behaviors of
leaders, groups, or entire populations. Influence operations employ capabilities
to affect behaviors, protect operations, communicate commander's intent, and
project accurate information to achieve desired effects across the cognitive
domain. These effects should result in differing behavior or a change in the
adversary's decision cycle, which aligns with the commander's objectives. The
military capabilities of influence operations are psychological operations
(PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), operations security (OPSEC),
counterintelligence (CI) operations, counterpropaganda operations and public
affairs (PA) operations. Public affairs, while a component of influence
operations, is predicated on its ability to project truthful information to a
variety of audiences.""