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''Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom'' was a top secret United States Department of Defense project that aimed to utilize information operations and resources at the Pentagon’s disposal to counteract the ideological threat of Communism during the Cold War. ''Militant Liberty'' was meant to serve as a guiding document for the American Armed Forces as a means to educate foreign and domestic audiences about the merits of democracy and the ideals of liberty and freedom according to the principles of the American way of life. Published on November 2, 1955, it was the result of a thesis, ‘Militant Liberty’, presented to Charles Erwin Wilson, United States Secretary of Defense by John C. Broger. Broger was President of the Far East Broadcasting Company and a hired consultant in the Joint Subsidiary Activities Division in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during this period. The purpose of the Militant Liberty pamphlet was to provide a means of evaluation and assessment of liberty or authoritarianism in any given area. It compared and contrasted the ideological differences between those of the Free World and of Communism while establishing principles of individual liberty to which one must strive. This program was one of the many attempts the Department of Defense made to establish an ideological doctrine for the United States.〔 ==Origin== John C. Broger developed the Militant Liberty concept in the early 1950s and presented at a University of California conference attended by Brigadier General Millard C. Young at the request of Admiral Arthur W. Radford in 1954. Championed by Admiral Radford, Militant Liberty gained the attention of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson who invited Broger and eighteen others to discuss and analyze the concept with him. This conference consisted of members of the military, as well as representatives of the advertising, business and entertainment industries. People such as Kenneth Wells of the Freedoms Foundation were recruited for the Militant Liberty program for the sole purpose of applying marketing strategies and promoting the project it through the federal processes as well as the public relations firm the Jam Handy Agency. With Wilson’s endorsement the project was then sent to the Operations Coordinating Board to determine how it was to be utilized in the strategy against Communism.〔 Although disseminated discreetly among the members of the American Armed Forces, The Militant Liberty Program remained unclassified and available upon request to the public. A classified version of Militant Liberty called ”Project Action” was employed in regions such as Latin America and French Indochina because it was believed that these regions were “particularly receptive to ideological propaganda.” The pamphlet was also distributed to other nations in the hopes that they might use Militant Liberty as a Free World guide of their own. The Militant Liberty concept gained further importance when it was exposed that interrogated American POW’s in Korea could not describe the intricacies of Communism, nor could counter the ideology with one of their own.〔 The resulting report drafted by the United States Senate Committee on Government Operations recommended an ideological indoctrination program in order to make American soldiers more resilient to communist tactics. Following the Militant Liberty program, Assistant Defense Secretary Carter Burgess and Assistant Secretary of the Army Hough Milton developed a spin-off program called “Battle for Liberty. ” Secretary Wilson had envisioned that ''Militant Liberty'', ''Battle for Liberty'' and the ''Code of Conduct'' would serve as the guiding documents creating a unified ideological doctrine for the Armed Forces.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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