Project Handclasp was a humanitarian foreign assistance program of the United States Navy, started in 1962, that distributed materials and medical help. The OPNAVINST authorizing the program was formally cancelled in 2022. It served as a public relations program for U.S. Navy personnel in foreign countries[1] and more broadly as a counterinsurgency organization; all branches of the U.S. military have a "civic action" program for this purpose.[2]
^Daniel Leonard Bernardi; Pauline Hope Cheong; Chris Lundry; Scott W. Ruston (2012). Narrative Landmines: Rumors, Islamist Extremism, and the Struggle for Strategic Influence. Rutgers University Press. pp. 136–138, 189.
^Sara Diamond (1989). Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right. South End Press. p. 223.
