Deception in war
DECEPTION on the battlefield is surely as old as warfare itself--the examples stretch from the very beginnings of recorded military history to modern times. Jon Latimer shows how simple some tricks have been, but also how technology has increased the range and subtlety of what is possible--bogus radio traffic, virtual images, even false smells. He draws examples from kind, sea, and air to show how great commanders have always had, as Winston Churchill put it, that indispensable" element of "legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten."
Print Book, English, 2003, ©2001
Overlook Press, New York, N.Y., 2003, ©2001