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ll warfare is based on deception,”Sun Tzu, the legendary Chinese general and military strategist, wrote in . Centuries earlier, of course, the ancient Greeks had employed deception on a grand scale—a huge wooden horse presented as a parting gift to the goddess Athena—to gain entrance to the city of Troy. Once the horse was safely inside the walls of the city, the story goes, Odysseus’s warriors, who’d hidden themselves in the
