Language:
English
Year of publication:
2024
Titel der Quelle:
Orient; Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients
Angaben zur Quelle:
65,1 (2024) 8-10
Keywords:
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah
;
Milhemet Ḥaravot Barzel, 2023 Deception
;
Military intelligence
Abstract:
The short piece seeks to highlight the role of deception in Hamas’s ability to successfully create the surprise that enabled its attack on 7 October 2023. As the weaker non-state actor in the asymmetric conflict with Israel, Hamas aimed to conceal its intention to launch an attack and blur the signs indicating its plans, using one of the offensive counterintelligence methods, deception, both strategically and tactically. The main lesson of the article is that policymakers and intelligence personnel need to be acutely aware and consider the possibility that the opposing side is employing deception against them, and do everything in their power to negate this possibility in the intelligence analysis process.
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