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    Military deception (MILDEC) is an attempt by a military unit to gain an advantage during warfare by misleading adversary decision makers into taking action...
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  • Russian military deception, sometimes known as maskirovka (Russian: маскировка, lit. 'masking, disguise'), is a military doctrine developed from the start...
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  • Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver...
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  • deception (D&D) is a Western theoretical framework for conceiving and analyzing military intelligence techniques pertaining to secrecy and deception....
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  • computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified...
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  • Operation Mincemeat (category World War II deception operations)
    Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of...
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  • into two groups. The first classifies the phrase purely as an act of military deception against one's opponent; the second emphasizes acts against one's opponent...
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  • Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service (MI5). Nazi agents in Britain...
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    Operation Fortitude was a military deception operation by the Allied nations as part of Operation Bodyguard, an overall deception strategy during the buildup...
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  • Ewen Montagu (category British military writers)
    best known for his leading role in Operation Mincemeat, a critical military deception operation that misdirected German forces' attention away from the...
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    decoys are fake military equipment that are intended to deceive the enemy. Dummies and decoys are only one aspect of military deception. During World War...
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    officer known for his leading role in Operation Mincemeat, a critical military deception operation which misdirected German forces' attention away from the...
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    Dudley Clarke (category Military deception biographies)
    pioneer of military deception operations during the Second World War. His ideas for combining fictional orders of battle, visual deception and double...
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    Ghost Army (category Military deception during World War II)
    The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1,100-man...
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    danger of being targeted or enable surprise. As such, military camouflage is a form of military deception in addition to cultural functions such as political...
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  • Procedures, to explain a form of deception, commonly used by terrorists in their attacks. The concept is commonly used in military tactical modelling and scientific...
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  • East, General Sir Archibald Wavell. Clarke's main role was to manage military deception in the region. As cover for this secret mission, he was also assigned...
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    warfare introduced its own air combat tactics. Often, military deception, in the form of military camouflage or misdirection using decoys, is used to confuse...
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    Operation Bodyguard (category Military deception during World War II)
    Operation Bodyguard was the code name for a World War II deception strategy employed by the Allied states before the 1944 invasion of northwest Europe...
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    Trojan War (category Military deception)
    him to join the war. According to Homer, however, Odysseus supported the military adventure from the beginning, and travelled the region with Pylos' king...
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    First United States Army Group (category Operation Quicksilver (deception plan) formations)
    Holt. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. Phoenix. 2005. ISBN 0-7538-1917-1 Jon Latimer, Deception in War, London: John Murray...
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  • refer to: Deception (criminal law), a legal term Deception Glacier, Antarctica Deception Island, Antarctica Deception Plateau, Antarctica Deception River...
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    electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and...
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    Dummy tank (category Military use of mimicry)
    superficially resemble real tanks and are often deployed as a means of military deception in the absence of real tanks. Early designs included wooden shells...
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    Operation Copperhead was a small military deception operation run by the British during the Second World War. It formed part of Operation Bodyguard, the...
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    London Controlling Section, which secretly coordinated strategic military deception and cover plans. His literary talents led to his working with planning...
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    village Post-truth politics Psychological warfare Memetic warfare Military deception Propaganda black propaganda counterpropaganda State-sponsored Internet...
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  • David Strangeways (category Military personnel from Cambridge)
    1998) was a colonel in the British Army who helped organise several military deceptions during World War II. After leaving the army in 1957, he took holy...
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    Army made extensive use of fictional formations as part of various military deception efforts to inflate their order of battle. The use of such formations...
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  • forces, and the deception of the enemy. The father of Western modern strategic studies, Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), defined military strategy as "the...
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