https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 01 May 2026 23:37:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/lewin-ronald/30185/ https://wist.info/lewin-ronald/30185/#respond Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:58:38 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=30185 Nearly always, the best deception trades on the enemy’s own preconceptions. If he already believes what you want him to believe, you have merely to confirm his own ideas rather than to undertake the more difficult task of inserting new ones into his mind.

Ronald Lewin (1914-1984) British military historian, radio producer publishing editor
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