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| | | | | What may get overlooked in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day is just how risky it was and how Allied military and intelligence elements had been conducting massive deception and disinformation campaigns for months ahead of time to ensure Operation Overlord had the best chance of succeeding. This included dumping radar confusing chaff, dummy paratroopers rigged with explosives, as well as Special Air Service (SAS) commandos with loudspeakers to broadcast disorient recordings, to confuse German forces. | |
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| | | | | "D-Day's 75th anniversary will represent the last large-scale gathering of living soldiers, sailors and airmen who took part in the fight for Europe." LAST WEEK'S commemorations of the anniversary of D-Day may now be over,... | |
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| | | | | Happy Veterans Day, formerly called Armistice Day since it marked the end of World War One on "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. Here are six books on that often-neglected conflict. (I will omit Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August because of how well-known it already is.) THE HAT... | |
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| | | A Ukranian military officer has offered new insights into the scale and scope of Russian electronic and cyber warfare capabilities, including details on GPS jamming and spoofing tactics, and how they have evolved since a conflict erupted between the two countries more than five years ago. He also said that Russia's capacity to launch some types of attacks may be waning to a degree thanks to American and other international sanctions that have made it difficult for the Kremlin to source key components for these systems. | ||