Information Operations advises on information designed to affect the will of the enemy, while Psy Ops includes so-called "black operations," or outright deception.

U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move.

The new combined ISAF department will come under the command of an American one-star general reporting directly to McKiernan, an arrangement that is also against NATO policy, the NATO official said.

"What we are seeing is a gradual increase of American influence in all areas of the war," the NATO official said. "Seeking to gain total control of the information flow from the campaign is just part of that."

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Oh yes! Let's be more afraid of our military and our government than the enemies of the US and NATO countries. s/off!!!

Soon Obama will be in charge of all of this. I wonder what he will do when he finally knows all the secrets that we'll never hear.

I think these groups have already been merged, in most countries, for quite some time.

The news on the recent terror attack in India, for example, is full of unfounded information (links to Al Qaeda) that serve the purpose of war.

Governments misleading people into murder is certainly something to be concerned about.

The media have it all - or so they think. They are noble soldiers of the empire

And what secrets would those be?The excuse that the goverment knows stuff that we don't know is b.s. as proven so thoroughly these last 8 years. And no one saying that one must be feared over the other, but the existence of one does not give a blank check to the government to do whatever it pleases contrary to Republican talking points which I am sure will switch 180 degrees the moment Obama takes office.