Intelligence Community: Denial and Deception

U .S . Denial and Deception

Effectiveness and Implications

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Introduction

The experience of the United States in intelligence gathering and its military campaigns in the past have indicated both its capability to launch effective denial and deception strategy as well as its susceptibility to enemy use of denial and deception

In military speak , denial ' refers to practices that are intended to prevent accurate information from reaching

opponents while deception involves deliberate activities that are intended to provide opponents with misleading information , causing them to perceive reality according to the deceiver 's intentions (Godson and Wirtz , 2000

This explores two historical examples of how the U .S . employed strategic denial and deception with differing outcomes . The first case involves the effective strategic denial and deception campaign used against Iraq in 1991 with the Operation Desert Storm . The second case highlights the vulnerability of the U .S . when faced with a weaker adversary that has maneuvered denial and deception successfully particular in Operation Allied Force used in Kosovo

Effective Deception in Operation Desert Storm

Operation Desert Storm illustrates how intelligence can lead to the successful planning and launch of strategic denial and deception in a military campaign . During Operation Desert Storm in 1991 , the U .S . along with Coalition forces came up with a robust campaign that utilized strategic denial and deception in overpowering Saddam Hussein and...