Battle of Wits: Synthesizing and Extrapolating from NPS Research on Strategic Military Deception

Abstract

The main findings of a group research project on strategic deception at the Naval Postgraduate School are summarized. The discussion includes the following topics: defining deception, tracing the deception process, judging the likelihood of deception, the difficulties of deception, advantages of the deceiver, the advantages of the offensive in deception, the impact of astuteness, doing counterdeception, and conclusions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA100013

Entities

People

  • Donald C. Daniel
  • Katherine L. Herbig

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Birds
  • California
  • Cognition
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Deception
  • Decoding
  • Game Theory
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • United States
  • War

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