The Role of Deception in the Ukrainian Russian War

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As weapons technologies evolve, so too must the cunning tricks. It shouldn't surprise us that deception is being used in the Ukrainian Russian war. The Ukrainians have been fighting this war since 2014 and they've been using rather ad hoc wooden models of sort of nailed together bits of scrap. But increasingly they're able to use inflatable dummies, inflatable tanks and artillery pieces in the field. And this actually works does it?

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