Episode Details

How Wars Are Sold to the Public explores the hidden information systems, media strategies, political messaging, and psychological operations that shape public opinion during modern conflict.

In this Epic Fury bonus episode, we examine how governments, militaries, intelligence agencies, news organisations, and social media platforms influence the way wars are presented to the public before and during military operations.

The episode explores wartime propaganda, information warfare, embedded journalism, strategic communications, psychological operations, twenty-four-hour news cycles, social media algorithms, AI-generated content, political messaging, and the role of emotional narratives during conflict escalation.

Topics covered include:

• Gulf War media strategy
• Iraq War and weapons of mass destruction narratives
• September eleventh and the War on Terror
• Vietnam War television coverage
• Russian information warfare
• ISIS propaganda operations
• Iran conflict media narratives
• social media influence campaigns
• government press briefings
• classified intelligence leaks
• censorship pressure
• online disinformation
• digital propaganda systems
• modern psychological warfare

We also examine how fear, uncertainty, repetition, and emotionally charged imagery shape public perception during wartime, and how modern information environments have transformed conflict into a battle not only for territory, but for attention, narrative control, and public belief.

This episode is ideal for listeners interested in geopolitics, military strategy, media manipulation, propaganda, intelligence operations, information warfare, modern conflict analysis, political communication, cyber influence campaigns, and the psychology of public opinion during war.

Because modern wars are fought not only with missiles and drones.

They are also fought with headlines, algorithms, narratives, and the struggle to control what the world believes is happening.