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I like this story, because it draws the whole complex masquerade operation together around a nice focal point. Fortitude was a very complicated operation (see:
by ErrantX 16y ago
I like this story, because it draws the whole complex masquerade operation together around a nice focal point.
Fortitude was a very complicated operation (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude, it even involved faking two entire fictitious armies :D) but executed brilliantly - one of my favourite pieces of war history.
- oiuytghyujki 16y agoAmateurs! One modern leader of an impoverished 3rd world country managed to fake an entire nuclear, biological, chemical warfare capability and the ICBMs necessary to attack Britain within 45mins. And he did it so successfully we were forced to invade.
- endtime 16y ago>so successfully we were forced to invade. I'd argue that that constitutes a failure mode...
- sp332 16y agoAfter doing it once, he had a lot of credibility when he said "Hey, remember the centrifuges the Germans helped us build in the 80's? and the chemical weapons we bought from Germany, refined with French equipment, and used to genocide the Kurds? Yeah, we're doing that stuff again." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Al-Anfal_Camp... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Iraq_and_weap...
- paulgerhardt 16y agoPerhaps you'll like the Bodyguard of Lies (http://www.amazon.com/Bodyguard-Lies-Extraordinary-Story-Behind/dp/1585746924 http://www.amazon.com/Bodyguard-Lies-Extraordinary-Story-Beh...). It largely focuses on the utilitarian sacrifices that were forcibly made in order to maintain the intelligence advantage.