A short introduction into Russian Military Deception - called Maskirovka. “Maskirovka is most simply defined as a set of processes designed to mislead, confuse, and interfere with accurate data collection regarding all areas of Soviet plans, objectives, and strengths or weaknesses.” (Smith, Charles L.: Soviet Maskirovka, in: Airpower Journal – Spring 1988) Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. » HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MILITARY HISTORY VISUALIZED « (A) You can support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv (B) You can also buy "Spoils of War" (merchandise) in the online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop » SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS « facebook: https://www.facebook.com/milhistoryvisualized/ twitter: https://twitter.com/MilHiVisualized tumblr: http://militaryhistoryvisualized.tumblr.com/ » SOURCES « Maier, Morgan: A Little Masquerade: Russia’s Evolving Employment of Maskirovka http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll3/id/3507/rec/1 Smith, Charles L.: Soviet Maskirovko, in: Airpower Journal - Spring 1988 http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj88/spr88/smith.html Lindley-French, Julian: NATO: Countering Strategic Maskirovka. Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. (2015) Glantz: The Red Mask: The Nature and Legacy of Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception Keating, Kenneth: The Soviet System of Camouflage http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a112903.pdf Krueger, Daniel: Maskirovka – What’s in it for us? http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a190836.pdf » TOOL