Unweaving the Web : Deception and Adaptationin Future Urban by Scott Gerwehr

By Scott Gerwehr

Explores using deception in army operations, utilizing the literature of animal and plant biology to intricate upon present deception idea and suggest new paths for technological, doctrinal, academic, and experimental improvement.

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R acts appropriately toward Y, because 3. Y means X to R, and 4. It is untrue that X is the case. 14 Unweaving the Web: Deception and Adaptation in Future Urban Operations RAND MR1495-1 DECEIVER TARGET Friendly forces Relevant decisionmakers Means of deception: friendly action Effect of deception: response to falsehood Deception conveys: false friendly capabilities, intentions, operations Effect of response: net gain for DECEIVER Chart 1—Deception: The Joint Definition Simply put, the deceiver (S) employs some means (Y) against the target (R) that makes him think something false (X), which leads the target to make a mistake that the deceiver benefits by.

Methods of infiltration are: black (clandestine); grey (through legal crossing point but under false documentation); white (legal). (Joint Pub 1-02) In deceiving the enemy as to his methods and intentions the guerrilla will use many ruses . . [He must have] agents working among the civilian population. (Handbook for Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army, 1956 edition, emphasis added) Urban zones are often densely populated with noncombatants, and among the most intractable of challenges in urban operations is the task of acquiring, identifying, engaging, and neutralizing adversary elements while they circulate among that civilian populace.

The following list represents just a few important questions on this topic for which there are currently no experimentally derived answers: • What is the right number of individuals to attempt grey infiltration in a given scenario? Should one agent at a time be inserted, or is there strength in numbers? • Is appearance more or less convincing than manner? , the target’s expectations of time, place, and action are met)? How do these elements interact synergistically to create a more or less convincing deception?

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