Category : Deception

Military Deception is a critical skill in planning at all levels of war.

This is a bibliography of Deception books we’ve used in developing these podcasts:

• Strategic Deception in the Second World War – Michael Howard.
• Churchill’s Wizards – The British Genius for Deception 1914 – 1945 – Nicholas Rankin.
• Practice to deceive Barton Whaley – Learning Curves of Military Deception Planners – Barton Whaley.
• The Capture of Unit 621: Lessons in Information Security Management from the North Africa Campaign – Tim Gellel.
• Barton Whaley – Practice to Deceive – Learning curves of military deception planners.
• Kenneth Blanks – Effectiveness analysis of the tactical employment of decoys.
• Christopher Rein – Weaving the Tangled Web – Military Deception in Large-Scale Combat Operations – (This is an excellent book by Army University Press)
• Hy Rothstein and Barton Whaley – The Art and Science of Military Deception.

These are the podcast episodes –