Lever of Power: Military Deception in China and the West by Sawyer Ralph

Author:Sawyer, Ralph [Sawyer, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Nevertheless, the deceit continued to be successfully employed in localized clashes in World War II. For example, as reported by Fiona Roberts in the (London) Daily Mail for June 27, 2011, based upon an interview with Betty McIntosh, who developed propaganda intended to undermine Japanese morale in India, a false Japanese government order was reportedly created to encourage Japanese soldiers in Burma to surrender rather than fight to the death. Its authenticity was then attested by planting it in the knapsack of a Japanese courier who had been slain to allow it to be recovered by the Japanese.

684 ​ As attested by two recent books—Ben Macintyre’s Operation Mincemeat, How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory , and Denis Smyth’s Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat —this well-known deception continues to fascinate readers.

685 ​ Yün-ch’ou Kang-mu , “Wei-shu Cha-ti.” Conversely, the danger of interception prompted the development of many clever measures to conceal communications, several examples of which are preserved in Leo the Emperor’s “How Secret Messages Would Be Sent” in the Strategemata . (For a discussion of secret communications in China, see Sawyer, “Clandestine Communication in Historic China.”)

686 ​ Polyaenus, 6:48.

687 ​ Appian, Roman History: The Hannibalic War , VII:8,50–51.

688 ​ Polyaenus, 4.2.8, Excerpts of Polyaenus , 49.1, and Frontinus, I:4.13, depict this ploy as having been employed at sea so as to allow Philip to pass through the Straits of Stena.

689 ​ Procopius, History of the Wars , VII:10.

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