It may also be largescale, longterm projections of false intelligence to assist theater objectives. The doctrine covers a broad range of measures for military deception, from camouflage to denial and deception deceptive measures include concealment, imitation with decoys and dummies. Minimizing strategic deception through individual values. Joint publication 358, joint doctrine for military deception is an unclassified publication from the joint staff. Tactics implement strategy by shortterm decisions on the movement of troops and employment of weapons on the field of battle. The use of surprise and deception as a force multiplier in joint warfare is analyzed across the spectrum of conflict from tactical to strategic war with emphasis on joint warfare coordination.
Matthew hughes, allenby and british strategy in the middle east london. Cyberwar involves everything from strategic deception and perception management down to tactical disruption of an adversarys information systems. In this paper, the logic evident in selected chinese and some western writings on prc deception practices is used as a basis to examine what is less. Download pdf soviet military deception in the second. This is a chapter for a book published by the us army university press on military deception. Minimizing strategic deception, page 1 minimizing strategic deception through individual values keiko krahnke university of northern colorado isaac wanasika university of northern colorado abstract it is widely held in the corporate environment that strategic deception is a legitimate strategic tool and means of competition. The purpose was not to give the world a ringside view of the. The six essay isn thi boos k deal primaril thy wite theor h y of deceptio annd strategic leve l deception a goo. A framework for supporting active cyber defense springer international publishing kristin e.
It is sometimes mistakenly confused with unintentional confusion or misinformation. Military deception mildec, conducted at strategic, operational, and tactical levels, is defined as being those. Chinas use of perception management and strategic deception. The six essays in this book military deception and strategic surprise by john gooch deal primarily with the theory of deception and strategic level deception. Cognitive factors in deception and counterdeception, in strategic military deception. Military strategy and tactics are essential to the conduct of warfare. As a form of strategic use of information disinformation, it overlaps with psychological warfare. This is usually achieved by creating or amplifying an artificial fog of war via psychological operations, information warfare, visual deception and other methods. Strategic deception in the second world war originally titled strategic deception, volume 5, british intelligence in the second world war. It stresses the need for full cooperation when planning military deception. Deception, like other components of information operations io, has as its ultimate target the human decision making process joint pub 3, joint doctrine for information operations. Strategic level deception is considered as deception that affects the critical infrastructure, including management structures of organizations and such deception may be wideranging or focused upon achieving specified goals. Deception is a traditional component of political and military con. Strategy of deception in the vietnam war the westmoreland trial produced startling new evidence of exactly how the men running the war duped the public about the strength of the enemy.
While deception has its roots in the earliest military strategies, the modern day practical study of deception relies largely on case studies from world war i to present day. Strategic deception download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. The term strategic, more difficult to define, is used here to denote a high level of importance. Citeseerx citation query cognitive factors in deception. The main focus of the book is the discussion of strategic military.
Operation kreml was a german army plan to deceive the soviet high command into believing that the renewed summer offensive in 1942 would be directed against. Naval postgraduate school research in experimental psychology is applied to an analysis of problems of strategic military deception and counterdeception. Pdf military deception at the operational level war researchgate. Strategic deception may extend political deception by using military activ ities. For current publications of the institute for national strategic studies, please go to the.
In doing so, it reflects upon the recognition afforded from discovery to creativity, innovation, science, doctrine, and ethics, within the studies of deception and the construct of military deception itself. Citeseerx scientific documents that cite the following paper. Tactical deception analysis on military, security, arms. The untold history of our country, from the pilgrims to the present fullacces. Donovan united states marine corps distribution statement a. Deception, as part of a broader strategy, is present in military case studies.
The availability of actual participants for interviews combined with detailed. Examples of operationallevel deception are mentioned in some of the essays to. The purpose is to serve as an introduction to military deception at the operational level of warfare. The truth deserves a bodyguard oflies, cautioned churchill. Taliban have an allinclusive military strategy and are operating at all levels of war on the following lines. Weaving the tangled web military deception in largescale. Pergamon policy studies on security affairs donald c. Military deception refers to attempts to mislead enemy forces during warfare. The art of perception management in information warfare. By means of improvised explosive devices ied blasts, suicide attacks and hitandrun guerrilla actions, lower the morale of soldiers and induce harassment in the common populace. Chinese writings on deception often focus on military deception, although at the strategic level deception activities, in fact, address peacetime functions as well as warfighting applications. Wed met through our shared curiosity about the role of deception.
In recent times, however, deception has often been undervalued, as evidenced by the removal of field manual fm 902, military deception, from the listing of official u. It concerns the major policies of a government rather than the details of policy implementation. Military deception is done in conjunction with the overall command and control warfare effort. Strategic military deception explains the nature of deception, its processes, and the elements and conditions when a person used and succeeds at deception. Harris during a brainstorming session with me in cambridge, massachusetts. Commanders, operational planners, and military deception planners must work together to ensure unity of the overall mission. She is currently pursuing her phd in the harvard department of government, where her research interests include military innovation and comparative cyberspace doctrine. Strategic deception frequent public expression of british fears of growing german airpower had revealed to berlin the vulnerability of its former enemies to deception. They present a good picture of the dynamics of deception and the potential benefits of deception. Indeed, many argue that it is intrinsic to all human interaction.
Military deception aims to deliberately induce misperception in another for tactical, operational, or strategic advantage. We use two examples where military deception occurred. Mystify, mislead, and surprise, advised stonewall jackson. Moscow has established a new level of ambition strategic maskirovka by which. Broadly stated, strategy is the planning, coordination, and general direction of military operations to meet overall political and military objectives. Army intelligence in vietnam that both disturbed and displeased. Weaving the tangled web military deception in largescale combat operations, a summary of the first book in the lsco set that includes historical case studies on military deception operations from the first world war to present day. Russian military deception, sometimes known as maskirovka russian. Pdf download military deception and strategic surprise. Machination is worth more than force, said rabelais. Provides an overview of military deception mildec and the goals, objectives. Among the theoretical articles are analyses of the nature and the process of deception. Deception ops up to the 1970s this excellent book strategic military deception by donald daniel consists of sixteen essays almost equally divided between the theory and the practice of deception.
Thed y present picture of th dynamice of deceptios ann d th potentiae l benefits. For a more indepth discussion of frameworks to analyze longterm deception, as well as. Strategic deception and counterdeception a cognitive process approach richards j. Pdf military deception at the operational level war. The main focus of the book is the discussion of strategic military deceptions.
Sally white is a cyberspace operations officer in the us army. With this in mind, a continual process of coordination, called the deception execut ion cycle, must take place. Conference on strategic deception in modern democracies. Deception, disinformation, and strategic communications. Soviet strategic deception download ebook pdf, epub. The military deception planning process is prepared by following six steps of mission analysis, guidance. In the iraq war 2003 journalists were embedded in the american forces as combat cameramen. The potential for a tactical or operational level deception to have strategic implications is high. The principles of current joint deception doctrine were applicable and utilized by the deception planners of general eisenhowers staff long before the current joint doctrine joint publication 358, joint doctrine for military deception was ever written. Deception in military strategy deception has been an important component of war through the ages. To identify deception, there is a need for knowledge of the adversary alongside. This publication is a little bit dated its 1996 but its the one available to us. The art of deception and the role of intelligence education. With this in mind, a continual process of coordination, called the deception.
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