Strategy and Semiosis: Insights from Operation Fortitude by Paul Ryder
Seeing the enemy almost completely wrong-footed, Operation Fortitude (Normandy) remains the most devastating deception in the history of warfare. It is also a campaign that teaches us a great deal about the internal dynamics and semiotics of strategy more generally. Accordingly, I propose that Operation Fortitude speaks profoundly to the principle of polysemy and to the related idea that, in competitive fields, strategic design may see to it that we are deceived into misreading tactics in relation to their informing concepts