U.S. Army PSYOP soldier hands an IFOR newspaper to a driver, Odzak (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 19 January 1996)
A soldier in helmet, body armour and camouflage, rifle slung across his chest, stands beside the open window of a small olive-green car on a village road and hands a folded newspaper to the smiling driver; houses and bare trees are behind. The tell is the printed product delivered by hand at the roadside, a news sheet about the force itself passed from an armed soldier to a civilian in his car.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- January 19, 1996
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- U.S. Army, 9th Psychological Operations Battalion, serving with the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Clinton Administration
- Leader
- Bill Clinton
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- Yugoslav Wars
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Department of Defense, Defense.gov News Photo), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work, U.S. Army / DoD)
Pfc. Michael J. Nelson, U.S. Army / U.S. Department of Defense (Defense.gov News Photo 960119-A-8908N-001), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Checked for printed text: none found
No printed or legible text on this object.
