First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. In wartime, truth is so precious, she must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
All warfare is based on deception.
But the thing I knew was that the best place to hide was in the mind of the searcher, for all men have blind spots in the mind. They rarely see what they do not expect to see, and their minds hold a blindness to what seems unreasonable. Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan. Children are the living messages you send to a time you will not see.