- The act of deceiving or misleading. - The state of being deceived or misled. - That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false
representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Deception Deception is a technique whereby researchers withhold information about the purposes or procedures of a study from persons participating in it.
Military deception Military deception— actions executed to deliberately mislead adversary military, paramilitary, or violent extremist organization decision makers, thereby ...
Deception target Deception target refers to the adversary decision maker with the authority to make the decision that will achieve the deception objective.
Deception story Deception story is a scenario that outlines the friendly actions that will be portrayed to cause the deception target to adopt the desired perception.
Deception objective Deception objective refers to the desired result of a deception operation expressed in terms of what the adversary is to do or not to do at the critical time and/or location.
Deception means Deception means— Methods, resources, and techniques that can be used to convey information to the deception target. There are three categories of deception means:
Deception event Deception event— a deception means executed at a specific time and location in support of a deception operation.
Deception concept Deception concept refers to the deception course of action that is forwarded to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for review as part of ...
Deception action Deception action refers to a collection of related deception events that form a major component of a deception operation.
Counterdeception Counterdeception— efforts to negate, neutralize, diminish the effects of, or gain advantage
from a foreign deception operation. Counterdeception does not include the intelligence...
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