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The host highlighted the book as a deep dive into the massive strategic deception behind the greatest hoax of the Second World War, explaining how it illustrated the complexity and scale of fooling an enemy about political and military plans. They praised the author's insight into the interlinked nature of such operations, positioning the title as essential for understanding large‑scale deception tactics.
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Strategic deception, as a concept, is building a plan to confuse the enemy on a huge scale. It's much more complicated, interlinked and bigger than simple trickery, and it aims to fool the enemy about your political and military strategy.
Joshua Levine is the author of Operation Fortitude, the greatest hoax of the Second World War.
Strategic deception is kind of a step up because you're building up this overall plan which is trying to confuse the enemy on a huge scale.
It's much more complicated, it's much more interlinked, it's much bigger.
You are fooling the enemy about your entire political and military strategy.