My apologies for dragging out an old thread ... I just found the forum

Outsidecenter you could do a lot worse than checking out some of Prof Phil Taylor's course at Leeds Uni in the UK. The uni offers a Masters of International Communications that includes electives on propaganda and persuasion among others.

Prof Taylor also hosts his own site as a central resource for all things Stratcom/IO/Psyop

http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/index.cfm?outfit=pmt

Unfortunately I can't convince my boss to give me a year's accompanied long-term schooling in the UK to do the course