Research Catalog

Title

Victory and deceit : dirty tricks at war / James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi.

Author

Dunnigan, James F.

Publication

New York, NY : W. Morrow, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Nofi, Albert A.

Description

384 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "The most potent weapon in any soldier's arsenal is deception. That you don't hear much about deception in warfare tells you something about how elusive and apparently rare it is. Yet, as the ancient Chinese adage puts it, 'There can never be enough deception in war.'".
• In every war in history - from those described in the Bible to the ones currently on the nightly news - combatants have used deception as strategy, often providing the margin between victory and defeat. In more recent times, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Korea, Vietnam, the Arab-Israeli wars, and the Gulf War all depended heavily on deception and its many guises: surprise, stealth, ambush, misinformation, false moves, camouflage, bluffs, and any other tactic a desperate or steely-nerved soldier could conjure.

Subject

• Deception (Military science) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Deception Explained, Described, and Revealed -- 2. The Wisdom of the Ancients: Deception and Trickery in Warfare from Earliest Times to 1648 -- 3. The Ages of Reason and Science - and Deception: Ruses and Trickery in Early Modern Times (1648-1900) -- 4. Deception Comes of Age: The Early Twentieth Century (1900-1939) -- 5. Deception on a Grand Scale: World War II (1939-1945) -- 6. In the Shadow of Armageddon: Deception in the Era of the Cold War (1945-1980) -- 7. Through a Shadow, Dimly Seen: Deception from the Eighties to the Near Future.

ISBN

0688122361

LCCN

94040096

OCLC

• 31375638
• ocm31375638

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries