The Third Challenge: Unconventional Warfare (1963, silent)

Description: Description: Content warning: Critically injured war casualties and people experiencing war trauma both actual and dramatized. At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center produced dramatized documentation of its efforts to combat international communist movements in southeast Asia and in Cuba using media manipulation and message control as partners to armed combat (Silent elements.) From Index of Army Motion Pictures and Related Audio-Visual Aids (1972): Armed Forces Information Film AFIF 123 (Color--45 Min--1963): United States capability to fight communist challenge of unconventional warfare -- United States military and civilian aid to foreign lands to develop counter-insurgency capabilities. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1960s, Cold War, War, Communism, Vietnam War (1961-1975), Military Tags: army personnel; army personnel of Asian heritage; Asian American officers; lectures; classrooms; counterinsurgency operations; soldiers; war rooms; studios; control rooms; message control; thought control; anti-communism; radios; guerrilla warfare; recording studios; television cameras; media production; mind control; media manipulation; war casualties; human bodies; dead bodies; grief; rage; USSR; Nikita Khrushchev; assembly rooms; Soviet Union; Lenin iconography; international communism; staged combat sequences; actors; actors dressed to resemble insurgents; Cuban revolution subtext; actor resembles Fidel Castro; info wars; special warfare; people watching television; television sets; combat; shooting guns; Home of the US Army Special Warfare Center sign; control panels; recruits; trainees; training; education; military training; army bases; army camps; Film Sponsor: U.S. Army Creator: U.S. Army Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: The Archives Project Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: Release Date: 1963 Geographical Location: USA Genre/Form: government, military Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: finegrain master, positive Color: color Color Process: Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 263

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