宣传战属于心理战范畴。“宣传心理战是一种精神斗争武器。其目的在于影响敌国群众和士兵的意识行为”。宣传战早已被人类用于战争实践,成为战场上的“无形杀手”。第二次世界大战中,随着战争规模的扩大和战争手段的现代化,宣传战也达到了空前的程度。以英、美为首的盟军,除了在战场上同法西斯展开殊死搏斗外,还在“看不见的战线”上同敌人展开搏斗,其激烈程度一点儿也不亚于硝烟弥漫的战场。 盟军参战伊始,就对宣传战十分重视。相对而言,英国在宣传战方面的“资历”略深于美国。英国早在“慕尼黑会议”之前就成立 Propaganda war belongs to the category of psychological warfare. “Propagating psychological warfare is a weapon of spiritual struggle whose purpose is to influence the consciousness and behavior of the enemy masses and soldiers.” The propaganda war has long been used by mankind in the practice of war as the “invisible killer” on the battlefield. During the Second World War, with the expansion of the scale of war and the modernization of the means of war, the propaganda war has also reached an all-time high. The allies led by the United Kingdom and the United States, in addition to waging battle-life fighting against fascists on the battlefield, have also waged their struggle against the enemy on the “invisible front”, a bit less intense than the smoky battlefield. At the very beginning of the war, the Allies took the propaganda war very seriously. In contrast, Britain’s “seniority” in propaganda war is slightly deeper than in the United States. Britain was established as early as the “Munich Conference.”