Stockade is a term to describe a
kind of military fortress. Since the beginning of mankind, in
any warfare, many are the tactical, logistical, strategies and
equipments used against the opponent, which even considering
that they are used either in separated as well as in a combined
constraining action, they are setting to the time involved in
the military operations. However, in the secrete warfare, hereinafter
named as the invisible stockade being more subtle, it never
ends.
Thus during the smouldering or declared wars it performs behind
the enemy lines through, sabotage, guerrilla operations, political
upheaval, forcing decision by psychological constraining terrorism
plots and standard intelligence procedures.
Sabotage, political upheaval, data collecting behind enemy
lines never ends. To stop as much as possible such enemy subtle
and stealth operations, security agencies tried by all mean
in training the society to avoid reveling relevant information
on the country war efforts. Generally such espionage countermeasurers
are taken throught the publication of warning posters, notes
spread all over the nation public places or even in local
made products such as, books, tools etc, similar to the enclosed
one printed in the USA during the WWII days.
By other hand in the peacetime, its purpose consists to fight
against the enemy by stealing his secrets as well as in destroying
his morale. The invisible stockade is as old as mankind. One
of its oldest and well-known stratagems is the tale of the
"Trojan Horse". After ten years of fruitless military
efforts, the Achaeans realized that Troy perhaps could be
taken by cunning instead of by force, and this insight invited
them to construct a wooden horse, which was to become the
instrument of their victory. They let an armed force hide
itself inside the horse, and in order to induce the Trojans
to bring it within the walls, they left it abandoned in the
plain, feigning retreat after engraving on the horse a treacherous
inscription:" For their return home, the Achaeans dedicate
this thank-offering to Athena - the wisdom's goddess
Moved by curiosity, the Trojans brought the wooden horse within
the city's walls and at night suddenly the hidden armed force
attacked them.
To let one know the great influence of such subtle but fateful
stratagem, even today, in the digital era, taking advantage
of the same treacherous connotation of the Achaean tale, one
of the most notorious and devastating virus ever produced
in the Internet is named as the Trojan horse. When it is spreaded
in the net through a naïve e-mail messages, it causes
tremendous deleterious consequences for companies and users.
The
world well-known stratagem: the wooden made Trojan Horse.
Courtesy Warner Brother.
Thus, the episode of Trojan horse gives one the idea of the
entrails of this subversive war tactics, generally surrounded
by complete secrecy and known to only a small number of persons,
whose operational structure is based fundamentally in communication.
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