What is Maskirovka Russian Military Deception, Military 101

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: (B) You can also buy Spoils of War (merchandise) in the online shop: SOCIAL MEDI