Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined.
They summon up unpleasant connotations; even those deeply involved
with cheating and deception rationalize why they have been driven
to it. Particularly for Americans and much of Western civilization,
official cheating, government duplicity, cheating as policy, and
conscious, contrived deception, are all unacceptable except as a
last resort in response to threat of extinction. As a distasteful
tool, deception is rarely used to achieve national interests,
unless in relation to the deployment of military force. As an area
of study, it has by and large been ignored.Intrigued by attitudes
toward cheating and deception, the authors decided to analyze its
roots, structure, and process. They asked fundamental questions:
are there categories of deception, general steps in the process of
deception, and ways to evaluate its results across time and in
different modes? The book that results is a typology of kinds of
deception, beginning with military deception, but extending into
other categories and stages.In his introduction to this new
edition, Bell outlines how the book came to be written, describes
the mixed emotions toward the subject displayed by govenmental and
nongovernmental funding sources, and speculates about its critical
and commercial reception. He discusses widespread new interest in
the subject, the research that has been undertaken since this book
was first published, and its limitations.This book provides a
general overview of this complex subject, creating a framework for
analysis of specific instances of cheating or deception. It will be
of particular interest to political scientists, those interested in
military affairs and strategy, and psychologists. The general
reader will find the book written with a light touch, drawing
examples of cheating and deception in the pursuit of love and
money. The specialist reader will be intrigued by its broad-ranging
examples drawn from policy and politics, wars and rumors of wars.
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