Sunday 31 August 2014

Maskirovka

I present herewith a reading for Merdeka Day holiday.

You can read or download the pdf.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a112903.pdf







What is Maskirovka?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskirovka

Maskirovka is a Russian word (Маскировка) pertaining to the business of military deception. Although the word is sometimes translated as 'camouflage', this belies its much broader meaning that includes all measures, active and passive, designed to deceive the enemy, which includes: concealment (skrytie), imitation using decoys and military dummies (imitasiia), manoeuvres intended to deceive (demonstrativnye manevry) and disinformation (dezinformatsiia). The Soviet Military Encyclopeadia defines maskirovka thus:

'The means of securing combat operations and the daily activities of forces; a complexity of measures, directed to mislead the enemy regarding the presence and disposition of forces, various military objectives, their condition, combat readiness and operations, and also the plans of the commander ... maskirovka contributes to the achievement of surprise for the actions of forces, the preservation of combat readiness and the increased survivability of objectives.'

It was developed as a military doctrine in the 1920s, and used by Zhukov in the 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol against Japan. For example the Field Regulations of the Red Army (1929) stated that "Surprise has a stunning effect on the enemy. For this reason all troop operations must be accomplished with the greatest concealment and speed." Concealment was to be attained by confusing the enemy with movements, camouflage and use of terrain, speed, use of night and fog, and secrecy. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskirovka

I learned of this from the blog War Is Boring :-
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/maskirovka-is-russian-secret-war-7d6a304d5fb6 

Another good reading from the blog is this :-
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/william-howard-livens-played-with-fire-e91d73c1595f 

Attached herewith an episode of Ghost In The Shell entitled "Pokerface"
 Enjoy.






Sunday 24 August 2014

For every single thing I felt

This week, after the MRT accident, I found too many arguments in my Facebook timeline.

Deep inside I felt hurtful.

I realised one important thing.

This world is full of "lawyers" debating. Debates gives either sadness to losing opinions and pride to winning arguments.

As in "Enjoy The Silence" by Depeche Mode : Words are very un-necessary, they can only do harm

Starting from that day, I choose to post photos instead of comments in my FB to make my friends and relatives smile. To smile, at least for one moment in this living hell.


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Instead of writing comments, I google "image-search" for what I want to say. For every single thing I felt. These are the photos.