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

摘要

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.