Let's talk about unconventional tactics used by western

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>>34831321
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cascade

In 1941, 'A' force (the British organization responsible for army intelligence operations in the Middle East) had already created three bogus formations to deceive the enemy in the Mediterranean Theatre: the 1st SAS Brigade,[3] the 10th Armoured Division in the Western Desert, and the 7th Division to guard Cyprus. This fictional build-up was expanded into a systematic plan to inflate British strength throughout the Middle East. In March 1942, the real strength stood at 5 Armoured and 10 Infantry divisions. Cascade intended to increase this strength, for the benefit of enemy intelligence, to 8 Armoured and 21 infantry divisions.[2][4]

Bogus units had to be created, and actually shipped from their bases in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa. An order of battle had to be drawn up for these units, crests and signs had to be created, and some form of physical presence was needed to convince enemy agents that the units existed.[2] False radio traffic for enemy signals intelligence, and information gathered by civilian informers in Egypt, increased the Axis impression that these units were real and present in the theatre. Most of the civilian agents, however, were double agents controlled by 'A' force through a network called Cheese.[5]

Enemy documents, captured during and after the battle of El Alamein, showed that Cascade was a success. An analysis by 'A' force, published on 19 November 1942, showed that enemy intelligence overestimated the armoured strength of the British forces by 40%, and infantry strength by 45%.[6]

>>34831321
>>34834865
Sneaky Bongs

Operation Bertram was a major Second World War deception operation practised by the allied forces in Egypt led by Bernard Montgomery in the months leading up to the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. Bertram was devised by Dudley Clarke to deceive Erwin Rommel about the timing and location of the allied attack. The operation consisted of physical deceptions using dummies and camouflage, designed and made by the British Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate led by Geoffrey Barkas. These were accompanied by electromagnetic deceptions codenamed "Operation Canwell" using false radio traffic. All of these were planned to make the enemy believe that the attack would take place to the south, far from the coast road and railway, and about two days later than the real attack.
The operation had two aims; creating the appearance of army units where none existed and concealing the real armour, artillery and materiel at the front. Barkas observed that "the concealment of the huge assembly of the Armoured Corps was essentially a piece of military planning by Army Headquarters, with Camouflage carrying out certain specific tasks." Since it would be impossible to hide the existence of such a large number of vehicles, and especially of tanks in the Martello area, Barkas planned instead to make the vehicles there quite obvious, as trucks, well before battle. The tanks, too, would be openly displayed, far behind the battle front. When the enemy saw that nothing seemed to be happening, the trucks would be replaced by tanks, masquerading as trucks. That meant that the tanks, too, would have to be seen not to move, so they would all be replaced with dummies. An unprecedented and "formidable" number of dummies were required: more than 400 tanks, 100 guns, and nearly 2000 soft-skinned vehicles

>>34834903
Real tanks were disguised as trucks, using light "Sunshield" canopies. They were made in two halves, which hinged on the sides of the tank. A half could be lifted by two men, and fitted or removed in a few minutes.
On the edge of the Munassib Depression, Bertram risked a double bluff. From 15 October 1942, a week before the attack, Camouflage constructed three and a half dummy field regiments of artillery.[b] These were carefully made to appear seriously camouflaged, but day by day they were maintained less and less well, to allow the enemy to decide it was facing dummy guns at Munassib. When the real battle had begun, the dummies were replaced at night with real artillery, which then kept utterly still for a day. An Axis tank attack on Munassib was shocked to find itself being fired on by the massed 'dummy' guns.

>>34831321
The Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service, a civilian organisation usually referred to by its cover title MI5. Nazi agents in Britain – real and false – were captured, turned themselves in or simply announced themselves, and were then used by the British to broadcast mainly disinformation to their Nazi controllers. Its operations were overseen by the Twenty Committee under the chairmanship of John Cecil Masterman; the name of the committee comes from the number 20 in Roman numerals: "XX" (i.e. a double cross).

The policy of MI5 during the war was initially to use the system for counter-espionage. It was only later that its potential for deception purposes was realised. Of the agents from the German intelligence services, Abwehr and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), some were apprehended, while many of the agents who reached British shores turned themselves in to the authorities; others were apprehended after they made elementary mistakes during their operations. In addition, some were false agents who had tricked the Germans into believing they would spy for them if they helped them reach England (e.g., Treasure, Fido). Later agents were instructed to contact agents who, unknown to the Abwehr, were controlled by the British. The Abwehr and SD sent agents over by parachute drop, submarine, or travel via neutral countries. The last route was most commonly used, with agents often impersonating refugees. After the war, it was discovered that all the agents Germany sent to Britain had given themselves up or had been captured, with the possible exception of one who committed suicide.[1]

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what about those tribal guys in the mountains who were assigned to fight the vietcong?
i've heard stories of guys with bows fighting alongside the US against the vietcong, the tribal guys were surpisingly effective.

>>34831321
read about project northwoods and if you're old enough to remember 9/11 think about it

>>34834979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

I remember hearing about the CIA giving the Muj very small altimeter detonated explosives to plant in Soviet jet engines in the 1970s. Apparently a saboteur managed to bring down several Soviet aircraft with them during the Soviet Afghan war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dingo

>have a bunch of captured guerrilla uniforms, a bunch of turned guerrillas, and a bunch of black soldiers
>have an enemy base across the border in Mozambique that's been annoying you
>put your black soldiers in the uniforms and have the defectors teach them the salutes and greetings and shit
>roll into their camp in land rovers, and go to pre-planned vantage points
>when the troops get into formation for their morning parade, every aircraft in the Rhodesian airforce, including two late 40s jet fighters you took off of mothballs for this one attack, drop homemade cluster bombs on the parade
>as the guerrillas disperse, your guys, who are wearing their uniforms, open fire on the panicked masses and helicopter gunships pursue from the air
>three thousand guerrillas are killed, you take two KIA, both from the obsolete aircraft crashing rather than from enemy fire