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The usefulness of subterfuge
Military deception is indeed a lost art in democracies, and more’s the pity (“Bodyguard of lies”, December 19th). Yes, it exists at a tactical level (“I’ll make the enemy think that I’m attacking from the right but actually my main force will be on the left”), but this is entirely predictable in its repetitiveness. At the more strategic level, military deception has withered. D-Day succeeded because of the trickery you mentioned: reinforcing Hitler’s conviction that Pas-de-Calais, 300km from Normandy, was the target for the Allied landing. Such deception would be impossible now. Modern armed forces are not nearly large enough to have the flexibility for such a duplicitous task. Conversely, headquarters’ staffs are too bloated, making it more probable that deception strategies would leak out.
several protests happening worldwide. this is a live look at climate rally in netherlands. roughly 7.5 million people in california have been exposed to a toxic chemical in their drinking water. researchers say water systems in 74 communities had dangerous levels of pfas, nicknamed the forever chemical because it never breaks down once in the environment. even in very low doses it can increase the risk of cancer, liver, and thyroid disease. the worst area impacted the marine base camp pendleton in san diego county. all right. let s talk football. philadelphia eagles flying over the packers grabbing the 34-27 road win not before take a look a brutal hit on cornerback von at a. the teammate injured accidentally hit him in the head. can you see helmet to helmet collision there. he was alert and moving his extreatments before heading to the hospital. some frightening moments there. we know who will perform at
well both candidates say they re going to accept the outcome of this election but of course a victory of the a.k.p. will probably be greeted by a lot of suspicion by the opposition already the decision for rerun has been met with a lot of criticism i don t think that missing a mama will call on people to take to the streets in case he loses but such developments are often quite difficult to control so we might see protests but we also might see a week long battle post-election battle for this important city a city of 16000000 people because no side clearly will let this city go so easily are one of the world s most fabled cities yulia han reporting thank you very much. afraid aims for a future climate rally has drawn students and adults from across europe to western
why aren t environmentalists saying we shouldn t be doing the rail the way we do? this is a false dichotomy. environmentalists are opposing the tar sands. no, they re not. that s not true. the climate movement has rallied around this issue. 1,000 people, and i m one of them, was arrested in front of this white house two years ago to protest climate change. we had 40,000 people in washington at the biggest climate rally in history here because they were rallied on keystone xl about the tar sands. there s millions of people who wanted universal health care and didn t get it and i happen to be one of them too. there were rallies there too. here s the bottom line, gentlemen. we re not going to get off oil tomorrow, next week, ten years. that s our mission to do it. as we re pumping more oil out of
me on the show. there s been almost sort of a conventional wisdom around keystone is that the president is going to approve it. i think it s pretty remarkable that you have members of the democratic establishment, former deputy press secretary, bill burton, heading an effort, a campaign saying do not approve this. it feels like perhaps the environmental movement is really sort of beginning to gain some steam inside you know, establishment democratic circles around this iraq. how much, how optimistic are you at this point? well this is a huge priority for most of the environmental community. because we see it as literally a line in the sand. and a key test of the president s commitment to really fight climate change with both fists. a couple of months ago we had the largest climate rally in u.s. history, 50,000 people came to d.c. to rally against this pipeline. and in favor of full approach towards transitioning to clean energy. and now what you re seeing is big, democratic donors,