5 Greatest Examples Of Military Deception In History

[@Unknown5tv]

Which other examples of military deception do you know of? P.S sorry for the extra croaky voice, have had a bad case of flu… * The entire channel is demonetized. You can help support the creation of future content using the following links. Thank you. ► ► ► Sign up at www.audibletrial.com/unknown5 to claim a free audiobook of your choice and a 1 month free trial of Audible, the world's largest selection of digital audiobooks. ► ► ►Get 2 FREE months of Skillshare premium here: skillshare.eqcm.net/dqBjW giving you unlimited access to over 22,000 online classes that can help you improve your professional skill set, start a side business you have been planning, or pursue a passion project. No Commitments. Cancel Anytime. My Book Of The Week: ► ► ► amzn.to/2IetZAA Patreon: ► ► ► www.patreon.com/unknown5 My Amazon Link: ► ► ► amzn.to/2WhnXbZ - do your shopping on Amazon and I will receive a commission at no extra cost to you - this greatly supports the production of future content on this channel - Thank you!

[@wyattmoore8283]

Unknown5 didn't notice at all

[@wyattmoore8283]

Oh, greatest deceptions, well mine is when my girlfriend said she wasn't cheating on me

[@tzmrmoon2472]

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[@eliasfrahat7074]

Unknown5 2 man managed to conquered a jewish fortress in a night

[@mynamejosh4016]

The ANZAC retreat in Gallipoli 1916 springs to mind

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

The use of clones to carry out Order 66 should be on this list

[@IETCHX69]

Well , guess I will look that up ! ( Canadian here ) .

[@PaulRudd1941]

Lol I too am a Canadian and I too had to look this up, made the comment all the better. @@IETCHX69

[@gavin3434]

@Mr_Beezlebub yesssss

[@tombell3948]

You forgot about the fact that the king was also in on the D-Day phantom army’s, as he would visit and inspect rows of inflatable soldiers and tanks to give the impression it was the real deal.

[@purpleldv966]

The empty fort strategy reminds me of one of the many strategies that the romanian king Vlad the Impaler (inaccurately known as Vlad Dracula), used when he was besieged in a small mountaintop fort... He snuck out during the night after turning around the horse-shoose on the horse's hooves, so when the marks left on the ground by the horses ware later found, it would be assumed that the garrison received enforcements and supplies, rather then the enemy realizing that he got away.

[@mattkaustickomments]

During the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark marched the same guys back & forth & around a British held fort to make it look like he had a much bigger force than he really did. Plus he attacked in the dead of winter. His tactics won the day and stopped British Influence in Illinois.

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[@chrisadlc1]

Absolutely

[@TheRaven_200]

Damn right.

[@icetemplar7555]

I know

[@Nick-rs5if]

@@TheRaven_200 That Abbath? 😁

[@w.herschelljamisonii9127]

My aunts worked on the inflatable tanks for Firestone during WWII. To keep the curious out the story was how bad and uncomfortable that plant was. Which it was not. Forever after that building was called "The Pit".

[@lickitysplit4711]

Are you a history teacher? If not you would make a great one.

[@MyH3ntaiGirl]

Bryan J. i would not say google is a good history teacher

[@RetroAP]

My Hentai Girl but a textbook outdated by twenty years is? Cmon if you find a reliable source you're good to go. Not to mention how much history isn't taught in the current education system and there's tons of new history being discovered everyday. There's also a lot of censored history that the powers at be want forgotten.

[@Creeper-m9]

Teaching history is about making it interesting and presentable rather than the dry way it’s presented currently in school.

[@GatherYeRosebudsWhileYeMay]

@@RetroAP I understand the premise of what you’re trying to say but you’re really bad at forming an argument. 🤦‍♂️

[@RetroAP]

@@GatherYeRosebudsWhileYeMay that comment is 3 years old dude 😅😅

[@nnelg8139]

All warfare is based on deception. -- Sun Tzu

[@austinslaughter319]

Or Makarov. LOL.

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[@matthewmckenna248]

Do a video on the top five forgotten wars.

[@The_Order_Of_William_Marshal]

Matt kid nice idea!

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

#1 would have to be Korea

[@jaywilliams9294]

can't do a video on it if you can't remember

[@RoyalZarak]

Good idea. My picks would be Korean War 1950s, The Crimean war 1856, The Mongolian invasion of Southeast asia 1270, The Defenestration of Prague 1630s, The Russian vs Japanese war 1900, Taiping Rebellion 1850s, The Battle of the Atlantic 1940s, The Barbary Pirates war of the 1790s, The Japanese Burma campaign 1944, The Balkan wars and campaigns during World War 1,

[@willcampbell8748]

The Boer War(s)?

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[@boraeananaren]

Small fact, RAF no617 ' Dambusters' were one of the squadrons dropping chaff to confuse German radar on D-day. Good video, I always enjoy.

[@BadWebDiver]

The retreat of the ANZACs from Gallipoli in WWI was very carefully planned, and is often considered one of the best coordinated withdrawals in history. Particularly of note was the rifles set off to fire randomly with water-powered triggers to convince the Turks the trenches were still manned.

[@MrBITS101]

same applied when the germans retreated from Sicily to the Italian mainland. It was done under the noses of the Allies and they lost minimal men and equipment.

[@justinian-the-great]

If they performed the actual Gallipoli invasion and landings as perfectly as they retreated, the entire war could be much shorter. Unfortunately, they choosed one of the worst places to make an invasion, without any covering of what they were planning. Turks and Germans literally knew that they chosed Dardanelles for invasion. Also there was no cooperation with Russians in Caucasus or other British forces in the Middle East. If Russians and British in Egypt and Iraq launched simultaneous offensives, it would draw many forces from the Gallipoli. The plan for landing itself was horrendous too, as pre-landing bombardment did almost nothing and there didn't existed actually plans to what to where to exactly attack when they break out from the peninsula. Many of this mistakes are infact Churchill's wrongdoings. Thus he was striped of his rank and send to trenches in the Western front.

[@henners8910]

@@justinian-the-great No he volunteered too go because he knew how badly he had messed up the man went straight into the trenches willingly as a volunteer.

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[@icn361]

I'm surprised that NATO (19 members at the time) vs. Serbia in 1999 wasn't mentioned. Serbian forces were maneuvered so successfully around the country, with the heavy use of decoy airplanes, tanks and artillery pieces that NATO commanders believed they all but obliterated VJ (Military of Yugoslavia) within the first few weeks of the conflict. They received a very nasty surprise when the post-conflict numbers showed that 78 days of heavy bombardment and ground guerilla warfare (mostly conducted by Albanians) resulted in destruction of less than 1% of the Serbian military force - mainly due to machine breakdowns which left a few tanks stuck and exposed to air raids. Incredibly humiliating, considering the overwhelming might of the combined force of 19 NATO members (not all participated actively) vs. a small, underfunded, under-equipped army which weapons were mostly relics of the 1950-70 era.

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[@derkeksinator17]

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[@wheelslifts851]

The funniest thing about the deception leading to the D-Day landings has to be either that all of the spies that germany sent to the uk were actually working for the uk, or that when the D-Day landing happened in an area they weren't planning for, Hitler's generals were scared to wake him up before the afternoon. And even after they woke him up, he waited a long ass time before doing anything. And plus, most of the tank regiments were unable to be moved without hitlers orders. It could seriously be a comedy movie without adding anything at all

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[@sicat2345]

Baden-Powel... Now it's clear to me why I felt deceived when I (reluctantly) joined the scouting movement.

[@christianestrada2535]

also the Vietnam War when U.S. troops put speakers all throughout the jungle and played the "wandering souls" recordings at night time as a physiological tactic taking advantage of Vietnamese superstitions of souls roaming around with sarrow for not being buried properly after death

[@firasajoury7813]

Not as smart as hanoi Hana 😂

[@JDfabricacations]

Mincemeat was damn good

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

Yeah, that was some slick shit.

[@PaulRudd1941]

I tried to find the movie but couldn't find it, but I really want to watch it. @blackzed

[@AussiePersian]

Wouldn’t really agree with your assessment of the Italian campaign. Ultimately the Germans pinned the allies in Italy for the duration of the war and they didn’t need much troops to do so. The Italian campaign was ultimately a drain on the more important d-day operation.

[@lancetennenbaum2509]

The dislikes are people who were deceived by these tactics.

[@clvnhrrs1214]

Lol.. Yesss!!!!

[@EbolaWagon]

ExDee

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Oh yes! Been waiting for fresh upload to your channel. Greetings from Philippines!

[@equarg]

RIP "William Martain". Little did you know that in life, you were alone. But in death you might of saved thousands of lives. I pray your spirit will find comfort in that.

[@PaulRudd1941]

His story made me so sad... but somehwat glad. He might've died poor, but after death he lived a rich experience.

[@mikesummers-smith4091]

Slim's crossing of the Irrawaddy in 1945. Feint attacks N and S persuaded the Japanese to pull their troops from near Meiktila to places where they could be of use. Guess where Slim launched his main attack? using the 7th and 17th Divisions, which the Japanese knew (from solid intelligence reports) to be stationed about 70 miles north of where they actually were.

[@DavidL1986]

That first story sounds like something they could make a film out of!

[@DavidL1986]

blackzed ty I will look out for it!

[@matthewkuchinski1769]

After seeing the empty fortress/castle strategy, I realized that Rick Grimes in the Walking Dead's Season 3 was a military genius, as he applied this strategy in the season's final showdown between the Survivors and the town of Woodbury.

[@heathen2487]

That makes sense. Likewise, the first person to die in WWII was in Germany. A German that they dressed in a Polish military uniform and placed inside German territory to make it appear as if the Pole's drew first blood, there by triggering the war.

[@almightydrewnos242]

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[@GTorrB]

As spaniard that knows his history I must say, putting a crucifix on the micemeat guy was incredibly smart, Franco was a go-to god fear type, as most of his asociates during the regime, proof is that he build the tallest catholic cross in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos

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[@TheHoagie13]

*"William Martin"* (two of the *most common name & surname* in the UK) was made a Capt (Captain) that was an *"Acting Major".*

[@kev1734]

Awesome quality as always mate. Good length. Not too long and not too short. I think 20-40 appx are good; loose times to aim at. Can't get over the depth of info either. Thanks again!

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[@kientekarladambo1877]

Impressive. ...

[@matthewkuchinski1769]

To learn more about the group of people who performed the brilliant subterfuge behind Operation Mince Meat's phantom army as well as the other non-existent army used deceptively for Operation Overlord, I highly recommend the documentary series "Secret's of War." Their episode on the North African Campaign covers the Allied organization called The Magic Carpet Gang.

[@rejecteddriftwood314]

What about the city of Troy & the Horse thing?

[@bbbabrock]

So in WWII, Britain developed super soldiers, that could each lift 1/4 of a tank. Yep. That's pretty impressive. No wonder they won.

[@AngloImperial]

Uhh, if it weren't for the Soviet Union provoking war with Germany, England would've been destroyed or subjugated in less than 6 years before the USSR got involved. You're lucky. You SHOULD be grateful, but like every inbred noble from your country, you think it was done solely by yourselves.

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Jay Williams no

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Shitty meme my man

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do you post this same running gag on every video for attenion?

[@cartooningfanart]

You forgot; Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, by Arminius.

[@marywinfield8279]

To my dear late father who fought bravely in this military endevaor. And made it home alive to share the take when it was declassified. Thank you, my beloved father!

[@cowmanzzz5206]

25:12 that little town in the uk newhaven I live there

[@kishinasura1504]

I think I already know the answer, but I will ask anyway. Did the allies ever considered invading Spain and from there advance all the way to Germany, instead of going to Normandy?

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[@Nick-rs5if]

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[@amiwakawaiidesu]

Thank you for another interesting and substantial video. There's also the famous example from the US Civil War of Confederate General Magruder continuously marching one of his companies through a glen to deceive the Union troops approaching Yorktown into thinking that they were facing a force vastly larger force than they really were. However, the success of that ploy was assisted by Union General McClellan's tendency to overestimate the strength of the enemy.

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[@lordofpills]

5 greatest betrayals in History?

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[@19paperclip89]

How did you not name Zhuge Liang?

[@TrueXL]

Because that a fictional Battle that was made up for the novel. As for Cao Cao one was a real example.

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How do you find all this information? Thanks for the awesome history videos

[@IETCHX69]

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Would be cool to have a halloween and guy fawks history lesson.

[@furii4308]

Was expecting Leo Major to be mentioned.. He took the city of Zwolle single-handedly during ww2. An absolute madlad..

[@Jhawar97]

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[@SuperBamaBob]

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[@jamie9046]

Maybe anakin should have faked retreat and he would have been able to get Obi Wan off the high ground :/

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[@jaywilliams9294]

number 6: Catfish a girl

[@benjones2776]

Damn those four guys carrying a tank are so strong. They should fight crime or something with that much strength. Colonel Beden Powel might have been popular at home, but surely not popular with his men, seeing as most of them died.

[@mngunisimelane7819]

Thanks for the vid

[@TerenceOToole]

Great video

[@IETCHX69]

27:37 . Looks like a few of the famed Navajo Code Talkers !

[@elvampir0]

Good video but, you honestly think that D-Day failing could lead to an Axis Victory? The russians had allready broken the german armys back by then. Im sorry, but despite of what some people think, it was the soviet union who defeated germany. Not the US and british.

[@robertodejuan5727]

Don't forget Skanderbeg, Albania's hero, who misled the Ottomans with goats with candles on them - at night - misleading the Ottomans into thinking the Albanians had waves of soldiers. His statue is on the covers of some books on Albanian language, his statue is in the ceter of the Square of Life in Tirana. All ironic since Skanderbeg was Christian holding off the Mohammedan Ottomans but Albania is now 60% Muslim.

[@nunyanunya4147]

the battle ov Hastings 'feigned retreat' is a myth that has been debated to death countless times... if you are going to mention it. mention they did it twice and the first time was not a feigned retreat but more surprisingly a kings control ov the battlefield and the ability to organize a retreating army on the fly. reports state they dropped their weapons and helms only to pick them up after the skirmish is over... you dont drop your weapon or helmet if you intend to go back into battle.

[@anarchyandempires5452]

.....Just because you have died does not mean that your fight is over......

[@warningpage8032]

Can you do a video about the American Civil War? Ps love you channel.

[@johannschmidt3389]

Sneak +100

[@johnietaylor1817]

hi if you could produce a vid on the next world and post it, now that would be handy. tks

[@SuperRKO92]

Emperor Palpatine pretending to be frail and dying to anakin, only to eliminate Mace Windu with unlimited power

[@rezneps]

What is the story of that badge with the ghost with lightning?

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[@nostop4524]

Wow, Fleming is so cool

[@moezuchmir4861]

Those Germans were so gullible.

[@Madjo-qj2ge]

Mafeking? I know one of the name is Robert Baden Powell Founder of Scouts

[@ethanrozling2732]

The corpse in operation Mincemeat was likely not a homeless man, but an American Sailor who had drown the night before they dumped the body

[@thevengefulpenguin]

Ethan Rozling it was the body of a Welshman named Glyndwr Michael, theres no evidence at all to suggest it was a serviceman, US or otherwise, it would have added complications to an already complicated plan.

[@bobkatfan2013]

Greene’s race for the Dan should be mentioned.

[@macrokaiju]

watching this I wonder if the next "wolfenstrain"-ish game could be a soviet conquering of europe/world. after berlin all they had to do was bulldoze all the way to the atlantic because all that was left was destruction.

[@Ismail-Ibrahim841]

Keep up the vids 👌

[@jakesmith-bw1yc]

Hows about the british artilery in africa ww2 it was mad to look fake and when it opened fire rommel was Stunned

[@Raz.C]

In 1943, after Kursk, the Germans started retreating from the Soviets, leading to an eventual full retreat, later that year. April 1943 was the year Germany lost the war. The allies didn't open a 2nd front to relieve pressure on the Soviets, but rather to avoid a post-war Europe dominated by a Soviet Union that the Allies had already begun to distrust. I'm afraid you have some mis-information in #1, Mr. Unknown5

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[@CarlosRios1]

13:30 Turd on tracks.

[@presidentforlife1732]

Franco betrayed the Falange. He opted for capitalism instead of fascism/falangism.

[@thepolishnz]

the man who never was was not stolen. he wasn't homeless and his family was aware that his body was being used.

[@jaystreet46]

Mincemeat. Huh. I’d go see it.

[@tuxedopig7940]

More vids plez