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AdamG
02-19-2018, 10:52 AM
Given that the Kremlin's shenanigans are reaching a boil (again), figured that it'd be timely to spot-light David Glantz's book for the historical perspective.

Excerpts viewable on Googlebooks
https://books.google.com/books?id=J0IsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR38&lpg=PR38&dq=Soviet+Military+Deception+in+the+Second+World+W ar+glantz+review&source=bl&ots=p6ekP364J8&sig=FmzASeONWZtpYOq-vCds46iifSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH8Kq857HZAhWPl-AKHZv0Ctk4ChDoAQhFMAc#v=onepage&q=Soviet%20Military%20Deception%20in%20the%20Secon d%20World%20War%20glantz%20review&f=false

Peripheral readings
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/05/04/the-mask-of-the-bear-soviet-deception-in-operation-bagration/

https://warontherocks.com/2016/05/a-deception-primer-for-the-fledgling-red-army/

Availability -
https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Military-Deception-Russian-Practice/dp/0415408598/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Azor
02-19-2018, 08:52 PM
Given that the Kremlin's shenanigans are reaching a boil (again), figured that it'd be timely to spot-light David Glantz's book for the historical perspective.

Excerpts viewable on Googlebooks
https://books.google.com/books?id=J0IsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR38&lpg=PR38&dq=Soviet+Military+Deception+in+the+Second+World+W ar+glantz+review&source=bl&ots=p6ekP364J8&sig=FmzASeONWZtpYOq-vCds46iifSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH8Kq857HZAhWPl-AKHZv0Ctk4ChDoAQhFMAc#v=onepage&q=Soviet%20Military%20Deception%20in%20the%20Secon d%20World%20War%20glantz%20review&f=false

Peripheral readings
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/05/04/the-mask-of-the-bear-soviet-deception-in-operation-bagration/

https://warontherocks.com/2016/05/a-deception-primer-for-the-fledgling-red-army/

Availability -
https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Military-Deception-Russian-Practice/dp/0415408598/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Let us not forget that the NKVD had penetrated the highest levels of the British and American establishments in the 1930s-1950s, including:


UK Secret Intelligence Service or MI6 (Philby et al; "Cambridge")
UK Royal Navy (Houghton et al; "Portland")
US White House (Currie)
US Treasury (Silvermaster, White, Glasser, etc.)
US Office of Strategic Services/Central Intelligence Agency (dozens)
Los Alamos Laboratory (Fuchs et al)
US State Department (Hiss, Duggan, etc.)