ABSTRACT
At Stalingrad in November 1942, the Soviets embarked on an even more deliberate attempt to conduct strategic deception. The plan involved several planned troop concentrations in other regions of the front (at Moscow, for example) as well as the usual practice of deploying masked forces into hidden concentration areas. While the threatened Soviet strategic feints had limited effect on German strategic deployments, the Soviet local redeployments and resulting secret concentrations worked well, producing the German disaster of November 1942. Here the Soviets demonstrated markedly improved skills which paid significant dividends.
