Principles and dilemmas of disinformation (deception) on selected historical examples
Principles and dilemmas of disinformation (deception) on selected historical examples

Summary/Abstract: The study presented here attempts to draw a synoptical compar-ison of the modern principles of operational camouflage throughmilitary deception. The research problem adopted encompassesthe practical employment of disinformation and deception in anappropriate and inappropriate manner. The first part of the arti-cle contains an attempt to briefly present the current theoreticalassumptions related to operational deception, including disinfor-mation. The second part is dedicated to an arbitrarily selected ex-amples from the history of the 20th-century warfare. The third partcomprises conclusions and references of the theoretical assump-tions to selected examples of armed struggle. The article containstwo fundamental conclusions. The first one is the possibility ofgaining an advantage at every operational level, especially at thetactical level, through employment of deception. The second onestates that success is determined by a concept of operation whichis recognizable by the opposing side, using the so-called Magrud-er’s principle and Jones’s dilemma.

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