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Deception is the act of trying to persuade people to believe information that is not true, through lies or trickery. As entertainment, the magician and performer Harry Houdini illustrated tricks of the mind and sleights of hand that deceived witnesses. In military matters, the objective is to mislead the enemy by disinformation, psychological operations, and visual deceptions. Sun Tzu asserted in The Art of War that all warfare is based on deception, when a party which is able to attack pretends to be weak, or ignorant when it is informed.
History, as well as fiction, resounds with examples of deception. Homer tells us of the Trojan Horse used by the Greeks to enter Troy and win the war. Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, mastered the art when he trapped and defeated a larger Roman army in Cannae in 216 B.C. One of the great historical deceptions was that in World War II, the deceit of timing and location of the Allied D Day landings in Normandy in June 1944 to convince the Germans that the main allied landings would be in the Pas de Calais, not Normandy. The elaborate deception included the creation of a fake First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) under the flamboyant General George S. Patton, with fake tank and inflatable transport dummies opposite the area of the Pas de Calais where the German forces were located.
A new film, Operation Mincemeat , starring Colin Firth, tells the true, if seemingly highly improbable, story of a British plot to deceive the Germans by planting false documents on a dead body dressed as a Royal Marine officer. The success of the plot depended largely on acceptance by the enemy that the falsified documents had come from a senior British military official. Not all senior military officials approved the plot, but Winston […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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