Rommel actually did this. Why not? One of the weapons in a general’s arsenal is deception. Who says we don’t get to use it on allies we need to impress?
Funding is funding. Generals are political animals, too.
Rommel actually did this. Why not? One of the weapons in a general’s arsenal is deception. Who says we don’t get to use it on allies we need to impress?
Funding is funding. Generals are political animals, too.
Reminds me of the theatrics that.. it was either the Americans or the British that pulled it. They built fake tanks and bases to make it look like they were far more than the enemy anticipated.
The Americans did it in our civil war. The Russians had Potempkin villages.
That was the Brits. They had a professional illusionist doing creative camouflage for them: Jasper Maskelyne. He also made Alexandria disappear, and hid the Suez Canal at night. Read David Fisher’s The War Magician.
Thank you, blackcatx3! Nuts. Library doesn’t have it.
Inflatable tanks, always amused me. Apparently the idea is still being used, modern ones apparently generate a heat signature to look more real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_tank fore more info
Thanks for the great links and info, guys. Why did the line, “You’re not fooling anybody you know?” pop into my mind?