“Knowledge will empower and enable, even when the physical contest cannot be won…Influence will not just be about messages or media, but how the combination of word and deed are portrayed, interpreted and understood through the lens of culture, history, religion and tradition. Speed of response is likely to be vital and first impressions will count. Notions such as winning and victory are likely to be of little relevance if an adversary can remain credible in the battlespace of ideas.”

Kit Klarenberg Substack

In January 2015, the British Army launched 77th Brigade with much fanfare. The new psyops force was openly advertised by mainstream news outlets as a shadow battalion of “Twitter troops… shaping behaviours through the use of dynamic narratives” on social media. After a decade of controversy over the unit’s potentially illegal deployment in domestic and international information spaces however, as of this April 77th Brigade “no longer exists.” Yet, London’s wider clandestine psychological warfare crusade dangerously endures in unseen ways.

77th Brigade’s sudden death was not advertised in any way by the British Army, but serendipitously discovered by a Freedom of Information researcher. Further digging revealed the unit was formally folded into the shadowy Headquarters Land Special Operations Force. Launched in December 2023, it combines special forces operations, reconnaissance-strike capabilities, and digital and information warfare components, arrayed against so-called “hostile states”. It is unclear whether 77th Brigade operates just as before, albeit under a new, less tarnished collective banner.

Either way, Britain’s longstanding, aggressive commitment to information and psychological warfare dominance has not dimmed. In January 2010, the Ministry of Defence published an extraordinary document mapping “Global Strategic Trends” that would shape London’s defence, foreign, intelligence and security approaches for decades to come. With eerie foresight, the appraisal concluded over the next 30 years Britain and the wider West would lose global hegemonic dominance, “as the strategic balance of military power shifts away from the US to a more multipolar distribution.”…

https://scheerpost.com/2026/11/11/psywar-no-more-77th-brigades-sudden-death

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