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Click here to subscribe: http://bit.ly/WW2onTVBy the waning months of 1942, the maw of the Nazi Empire seemed to grow ever larger and more menacing, set to c...
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Dec 25, 2022 · Examine the machines used to capture, transmit, and analyze vital combat information, featuring SOE agents and their equipment, spies stealing Royal Navy blueprints, and a daring submarine mission...
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Jun 15, 2019 · The Allies’ top-secret Operation Fortitude was in full swing, and Germany was belatedly realizing that it had prepared to do battle with the world’s largest phantom army… one that would ...
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- Operational Deception at Alam Halfa
- Dudley Clarke and Operational Deception
- Operation Treatment
- Operation Bertram For Operation Lightfoot
- Barton Whaley’s 10 Point Deception Planning Checklist.
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We look at an Operation conducted by Freddie de Guingand, and a ‘haversack’ ruse. He produced a fake going map and work to funnel Rommel’s armour into an area of notoriously deep sand, designed to decrease enemy mobility and increase fuel usage. German mapping was fairly poor and they highly prized captured maps. Prisoner interrogation showed that ...
We discuss the learnings of Dudley Clarke – he learnt to ask his operational planners – ‘what do you want the enemy to do, not what do you want the enemy to think?’ Two plans were developed – Operation Treatment, the strategic deception plan and Operation Bertram, the operational deception. Freddie de Guingand, Montgomery’s Chief of Staff ordered C...
The allies developed a Op Treatment was to develop the idea that the main effort was Crete and Montgomery would only conduct minor offensives to train his troops in operational conditions. Hitler ensured that Crete was reinforced. This was during fierce fighting in the Caucusus
Clarke believed that the lie was so precious that it would need to be flanked with a bodyguard of truths. The Deception plan had the following objectives: 1. Conceal the true nation of the build-up and intentions of the forces in the north. 2. Suggest the southern axis as the main effort for the assault. 3. Minimise the importance of the forces in ...
1. In planning a deception, the planner must know its strategic goal. For the magician, this is always simply to provide the audience with a pleasing and surprising effect or puzzle, for that is all they expect if he is to earn his keep. For the military commander, it may be to launch a surprise invasion of another country, effect a landing on an e...
Barton Whaley – Practice to Deceive – Learning curves of military deception planners. Kenneth Blanks – Effectiveness analysis of the tactical employment of decoys. Christopher Rein – Weaving the Tangled Web – Military Deception in Large-Scale Combat Operations – (This is an excellent book by Army University Press) Hy Rothstein and Barton Whaley – T...
Apr 11, 2024 · The deceiving force gains advantage by both confusing the adversary and preserving its combat power. Ultimately, deception is a critical combat enabler that requires deliberate planning, creative practitioners, and limited resources.
Rather, it is intended as a primer and a thought piece for how strategists, operational planners, staff officers and, ultimately, commanders have historically integrated military deception...
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Several major examples of military deception in 20th Century military operations show that deception remains integral to military victory. During the Second World War contested amphibious operations stood apart as some of the most complex, risky, and decisive operations of the war.
