Practise to Deceive
Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners
Published on 15. January 2016
256 pages
978-1-61251-983-8 (ISBN)
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Written by the undisputed dean of U.S. denial and deception experts, Practise to Deceive is the most in-depth look at deception as a military strategy. Barton Whaley knew the history of denial and deception across time, disciplines, and culture. He was the foremost authority on the intricacies of denial and deception strategy and tactics. For Whaley, deception was a mind-game, requiring imagination, deep critical thought, a profound understanding of the enemy as well as one's self (a variation of Sun Tzu), and patience and fortitude. This book presents 88 vividly descriptive case studies to serve as a handbook for intelligence and military professionals. In Whaley's analysis, variations in guilefulness between opposing individuals or groups can be crucial in deciding who achieves victory in combat.
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Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners
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Barton Whaley received his bachelor of arts in Chinese studies from the University of California, Berkeley before serving with the intelligence section of U.S. Army Psychological Warfare headquartered in Tokyo during the Korean War. Following the war, he attended London University School of Oriental and African Studies before receiving his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was affiliated with the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and worked for the director of National Security's Foreign Denial and Deception Committee of the Director of National Intelligence. He passed away in 2013.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Executive Summary: Findings and Recommendations
- 0.1. Discontinuities
- 0.2. Planners as Individuals
- 0.3. Overall Competence
- 0.4. Recommended Research
- 0.5. °e Planning Process in a Nutshell
- Introduction by A. Denis Clift
- PART ONE: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Intent
- Chapter 2: Scope
- Chapter 3: Sources
- PART TWO: The Case Studies
- Chapter 4: Learning to Deceive
- Chapter 5: Planners in Specific Operations
- Chapter 6: Selling the Commander
- Chapter 7: Institutional Deception Planning
- PART THREE: Analysis & Conclusions
- Chapter 8: The Planning Process
- 8.1. The Basic Process
- 8.2. ~e ~ings Manipulated
- Chapter 9: Social/Institutional Factors: Networks, Institutions, & Traditions
- 9.1 Policy Constraints and the Supreme Command
- 9.2. Commanders and Their Staffs
- 9.3 Intelligence or Operations?
- 9.4 Level of Operations: The Tactical-Strategic Continuum
- 9.5 Enemy Capabilities & SOP
- Chapter 10: Cultural Factors
- 10.1 Ethical Constraints
- 10.2 Deception and National Character
- 10.3 National Military Doctrines
- 10.4 The "Not Invented Here" Syndrome & Its Alternatives
- Chapter 11: Personality Factors
- 11.1 The Maria Theresa Syndrome: Break the Rules to Make Your Own
- 11.2 The Pleasures of Deceiving: An Odd Sense of Humor
- 11.3 The Empathic MInd: Know Your Enemy
- 11.4 The Prepared Mind: Know Your Subject
- Chapter 12: Selection of Deception Personnel
- 12.1 Prior Experience
- 12.2 Selection
- 12.3 Teaching & Training
- Appendices
- Appendix A: "Guidelines for Deception of the Enemy," 15 February 1941
- Appendix B: Chronology of 67 Further German BARBAROSSA Deception Plans, 1941
- Appendix C: Plan CLOAK, 25 January 1945
- Appendix D: Checklist of Other Deception Plans
- Bilbliography
- List of Cases: Cases 1-88 in order presented
