Introduction to Intelligence Studies

Introduction to Intelligence Studies190

• Centralized planning and control—Operations should be centrally

planned and directed in order to achieve unity of eort.

• Security—Friendly forces must deny knowledge of a force’s intent to

deceive and the execution of that intent to adversaries.

• Timeliness—A deception operation requires careful timing.

• Integration—Each military deception must be carefully integrated

with the operation it is supporting.

Military deception operations apply four basic deception techniques:

feints, demonstrations, ruses, and displays. Feints are oensive actions

involving contact with the adversary to deceive him as to the location and/

or time of the actual main oensive action. Demonstrations are shows of

force wher ...