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* Near the beginning of World War II, Hitler and Mussolini attempted to convince Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco to join their Axis. Franco agreed, on the condition that, after the war, Spain received basically all of North Africa that didn't already belong to Italy. This condition was too much for Mussolini, so Spain remained neutral (if Axis-leaning). On one hand, this can be seen as an example of Franco's ego. On the other hand, it is very possible that Franco deliberately overreached during negotiations in order to stay out of the war, while remaining on better terms with the Axis than he would have if he had outright declined an alliance.
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** An escalating war of Batman Gambits emerged in the use of artillery in WWI. Infantry would attack after their own side's artillery significantly barraged the enemy's trenches so the enemy's infantry (that would have been taking cover in their dugouts during the barrage) would have made to immediately form up in their trenches after a large barrage ended. Sometimes instead of having the infantry attack after a big artillery barrage, the artillery would wait a bit and then fire again in the hopes of killing more infantry that would have gotten out of their cover, fire off gas shells to hit as much of the enemy as possible as they ran out of their dugouts, or barrage the enemy on-and-off continuously to prevent the enemy from sleeping from being on alert in expectation of an attack/bait them into not expecting an upcoming night raid...until they eventually actually just did a barrage for preceding an infantry attack, of course.
** Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breathe), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
** German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble. So the British came up with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship#First_World_War Q-ships]], the latest variation on an old idea. These would be apparent merchant boats that had concealed deck guns behind fake bulkheads. They were purposely sailed into waters where U-boats were known to be active. So when the U-boats saw the Q-ships, they surfaced -— only for the crews to remove the fake bulkheads, run up the Royal Navy ensign and fire away. Later on they got even more clever. The boats would be loaded with light cargo like balsa wood so that it would stay afloat even if torpedoed, encouraging U-boat commanders to surface and finish the job from there. Sometimes the "crews" would even abandon ship to further entice the U-boat up into gun range. U-Boat commanders eventually grew wary of the trick, and instead would just [[GoneHorriblyRight torpedo any ship they came across without warning, rather than risk getting shot at]], though [[XanatosGambit this was still considered an overall "win" for the British]], since the U-boats only carried a handful of torpedoes. A U-boat captain who was unwilling to risk a surface attack with the deck gun therefore had a strict upper limit to how many ships it was possible for him to sink on a single patrol. While each individual ship attacked by a U-boat was more likely to sink and the crew was less likely to be able to safely abandon ship, the total number of ships lost was still reduced.
* Also during WWII German commanders on the Western Front frequently banked on the Allied tendency (especially Americans) to cease operations with nightfall. So they would avoid pitched battle during the day, delay, retreat and trade space for time only to roll up pretty much directly to the American front in the night, mined, trap and prepare the ground for next day and start the game anew.
* Also during WWII, when the Allies were planning to invade southern Europe from Africa, the British launched a uniformed corpse from a submarine, in an area where the Spanish would recover his body. Chained to his belt was a briefcase that explained that the invasion site would [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial NOT be Sicily]], and hinted instead it would be Greece.[[note]]If the plans were real, there would've been no need to identify the target, because anybody authorized to read them would already know. Thus, not directly mentioning it made the fake plans seem more authentic.[[/note]] With an additional hint that the target could be Sardinia, via an IncrediblyLamePun about sardines. The Spanish under Franco, being on friendly terms with the Germans, found the body and gave the evidence to the German embassy, who bought the story, leaving the invasion site nearly undefended. It may also help that the Abwehr, which asserted the authenticity of the documents, was riddled with British agents, including its head, Admiral Canaris.
** The success of this plan, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat]], was actually what led the Germans to disregard other information they'd actually gotten. Once the invasion was complete, they realised they'd been fooled and disregarded several other actual intelligence leaks as simple repeats of Mincemeat. Due to the effectiveness of the other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude major deceptive operation]] this failure included the actual landings at D-Day being ruled as a repeat of Mincemeat.
** Allied intelligence also effectively played the highly paranoid attitude among German spies and their handlers. They used turned German agents to discredit reports filed by (still loyal) spies. As a result, German intelligence dismissed many of its actual spies in favor of one who were getting "better" information (who happen to be double agents). In one notable case, a Juan Pujol García (German codename "Arabel", British codename "Garbo" managed to stall the advance of tanks to counter the D-Day landings by convincing his handlers that the other spies in France has been turned and that he alone knew that [[BlatantLies Normandy was a diversion attack]] meant to pull troops away from the ''real'' landing site. The Germans were so impressed with this and other information he gave them, he was awarded the [[BlingOfWar Iron Cross Second Class]], an award given only on Hitler's personal authorization. For his service to the British war effort, he was secretly made [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever a Member of the Order of the British Empire]] by King George VI. As a result, he was the only person to be given high honors by both sides of the conflict, for doing the same thing.
** The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while they sent in battleships from the west to attack the mostly defenseless tranports at Leyte Gulf. Admiral Halsey, who was in command of the main American fleet, swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. [[LeeroyJenkins Halsey raced north]] to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving almost nothing behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships arrived, they very nearly massacred the American transports and their few escorts. Only a very frantic defense by the Americans and lots of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back.
** The UsefulNotes/AlanTuring team invented Chosen Plaintext Cryptanalysis on Enigma - a method of breaking codes by intentionally feeding known plaintext into an unknown cryptographic system and compare the output ciphertexts - by exploiting the German standard form naval mine reports. RAF would drop mines at locations chosen by Bletchley Park, so the cryptanalysts can intercept the corresponding encrypted standard form naval mine report and know both most of its exact contents, facilitating the cryptanalysis of Enigma.
** A successful WWII gambit in a non-combat context: When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was in possession of the Nobel Prize gold medals awarded to German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck. During the occupation, it was illegal to send gold out of the country. Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, then working at the Institute, had a plan. He prepared a jar of aqua regia, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids capable of dissolving gold, and dumped the medals in the acid. De Hevesy then placed the jar on a shelf at his laboratory along with dozens if not hundreds of other jars of chemicals. The Nazis, not knowing any better, ignored the jar. He fled for Sweden in 1943, receiving his own Nobel Prize shortly after arriving in Stockholm, and returned to his old laboratory in Copenhagen after the war to find the jar undisturbed. He then precipitated the gold out of the acid, and sent it to the Nobel committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They then cast new medals for Laue and Franck from the original gold.
** Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breathe), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
** German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble. So the British came up with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship#First_World_War Q-ships]], the latest variation on an old idea. These would be apparent merchant boats that had concealed deck guns behind fake bulkheads. They were purposely sailed into waters where U-boats were known to be active. So when the U-boats saw the Q-ships, they surfaced -— only for the crews to remove the fake bulkheads, run up the Royal Navy ensign and fire away. Later on they got even more clever. The boats would be loaded with light cargo like balsa wood so that it would stay afloat even if torpedoed, encouraging U-boat commanders to surface and finish the job from there. Sometimes the "crews" would even abandon ship to further entice the U-boat up into gun range. U-Boat commanders eventually grew wary of the trick, and instead would just [[GoneHorriblyRight torpedo any ship they came across without warning, rather than risk getting shot at]], though [[XanatosGambit this was still considered an overall "win" for the British]], since the U-boats only carried a handful of torpedoes. A U-boat captain who was unwilling to risk a surface attack with the deck gun therefore had a strict upper limit to how many ships it was possible for him to sink on a single patrol. While each individual ship attacked by a U-boat was more likely to sink and the crew was less likely to be able to safely abandon ship, the total number of ships lost was still reduced.
* Also during WWII German commanders on the Western Front frequently banked on the Allied tendency (especially Americans) to cease operations with nightfall. So they would avoid pitched battle during the day, delay, retreat and trade space for time only to roll up pretty much directly to the American front in the night, mined, trap and prepare the ground for next day and start the game anew.
* Also during WWII, when the Allies were planning to invade southern Europe from Africa, the British launched a uniformed corpse from a submarine, in an area where the Spanish would recover his body. Chained to his belt was a briefcase that explained that the invasion site would [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial NOT be Sicily]], and hinted instead it would be Greece.[[note]]If the plans were real, there would've been no need to identify the target, because anybody authorized to read them would already know. Thus, not directly mentioning it made the fake plans seem more authentic.[[/note]] With an additional hint that the target could be Sardinia, via an IncrediblyLamePun about sardines. The Spanish under Franco, being on friendly terms with the Germans, found the body and gave the evidence to the German embassy, who bought the story, leaving the invasion site nearly undefended. It may also help that the Abwehr, which asserted the authenticity of the documents, was riddled with British agents, including its head, Admiral Canaris.
** The success of this plan, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat]], was actually what led the Germans to disregard other information they'd actually gotten. Once the invasion was complete, they realised they'd been fooled and disregarded several other actual intelligence leaks as simple repeats of Mincemeat. Due to the effectiveness of the other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude major deceptive operation]] this failure included the actual landings at D-Day being ruled as a repeat of Mincemeat.
** Allied intelligence also effectively played the highly paranoid attitude among German spies and their handlers. They used turned German agents to discredit reports filed by (still loyal) spies. As a result, German intelligence dismissed many of its actual spies in favor of one who were getting "better" information (who happen to be double agents). In one notable case, a Juan Pujol García (German codename "Arabel", British codename "Garbo" managed to stall the advance of tanks to counter the D-Day landings by convincing his handlers that the other spies in France has been turned and that he alone knew that [[BlatantLies Normandy was a diversion attack]] meant to pull troops away from the ''real'' landing site. The Germans were so impressed with this and other information he gave them, he was awarded the [[BlingOfWar Iron Cross Second Class]], an award given only on Hitler's personal authorization. For his service to the British war effort, he was secretly made [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever a Member of the Order of the British Empire]] by King George VI. As a result, he was the only person to be given high honors by both sides of the conflict, for doing the same thing.
** The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while they sent in battleships from the west to attack the mostly defenseless tranports at Leyte Gulf. Admiral Halsey, who was in command of the main American fleet, swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. [[LeeroyJenkins Halsey raced north]] to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving almost nothing behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships arrived, they very nearly massacred the American transports and their few escorts. Only a very frantic defense by the Americans and lots of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back.
** The UsefulNotes/AlanTuring team invented Chosen Plaintext Cryptanalysis on Enigma - a method of breaking codes by intentionally feeding known plaintext into an unknown cryptographic system and compare the output ciphertexts - by exploiting the German standard form naval mine reports. RAF would drop mines at locations chosen by Bletchley Park, so the cryptanalysts can intercept the corresponding encrypted standard form naval mine report and know both most of its exact contents, facilitating the cryptanalysis of Enigma.
** A successful WWII gambit in a non-combat context: When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was in possession of the Nobel Prize gold medals awarded to German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck. During the occupation, it was illegal to send gold out of the country. Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, then working at the Institute, had a plan. He prepared a jar of aqua regia, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids capable of dissolving gold, and dumped the medals in the acid. De Hevesy then placed the jar on a shelf at his laboratory along with dozens if not hundreds of other jars of chemicals. The Nazis, not knowing any better, ignored the jar. He fled for Sweden in 1943, receiving his own Nobel Prize shortly after arriving in Stockholm, and returned to his old laboratory in Copenhagen after the war to find the jar undisturbed. He then precipitated the gold out of the acid, and sent it to the Nobel committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They then cast new medals for Laue and Franck from the original gold.
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** An escalating war of Batman Gambits emerged in the use of artillery in WWI. Infantry would attack after their own side's artillery significantly barraged the enemy's trenches trenches, so the enemy's infantry (that - who would have been taking cover in their dugouts during the barrage) barrage - would have made to immediately form formed up in their trenches after a large the barrage ended. Sometimes Sometimes, instead of having the infantry attack after a big artillery barrage, attack, the artillery would wait a bit and then fire again in the hopes of killing more infantry that would have gotten out of their cover, fire off gas shells to hit as much many of the enemy as possible as they ran out of their dugouts, or barrage the enemy on-and-off continuously to prevent the enemy from sleeping from due to being on alert in expectation of an attack/bait attack / bait them into not expecting an upcoming night raid...raid... until they eventually they actually just did a barrage for preceding an have the infantry attack, of course.
** Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks arehighly restrictive and highly uncomfortable for and restrictive of a person's ability to see and breathe), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto on a location not for the purpose of killing to kill the defenders, but getting to get them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that because otherwise their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
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** German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble. So the British came up with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship#First_World_War Q-ships]], the latest variation on an old idea. These would be apparent merchant boats that had concealed deck guns behind fake bulkheads. They were purposely sailed into waters where U-boats were known to be active. So when the U-boats saw the Q-ships, theysurfaced -— surfaced-— only for the crews to remove the fake bulkheads, run up the Royal Navy ensign ensign, and fire away. Later on on, they got even more clever. The boats would be loaded with light cargo like balsa wood so that it would stay afloat even if torpedoed, encouraging U-boat commanders to surface and finish the job from there. Sometimes the "crews" would even abandon ship to further entice the U-boat up into gun range. U-Boat commanders eventually grew wary of the trick, and instead would just [[GoneHorriblyRight torpedo any ship they came across without warning, rather than risk getting shot at]], though [[XanatosGambit this was still considered an overall "win" for the British]], since the U-boats only carried a handful of torpedoes. A U-boat captain who was unwilling to risk a surface attack with the deck gun therefore had a strict upper limit to how many ships it was possible for him to sink on a single patrol. While each individual ship attacked by a U-boat was more likely to sink sink, and the crew was less likely to be able to safely abandon ship, the total number of ships lost was still reduced.
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** Near the beginning of the war, Hitler and Mussolini attempted to convince Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco to join their Axis. Franco agreed, on the condition that, after the war, Spain received basically all of North Africa that didn't already belong to Italy. This condition was too much for Mussolini, so Spain remained neutral (if Axis-leaning). On one hand, this can be seen as an example of Franco's ego. On the other hand, it is very possible that Franco deliberately overreached duringWWII negotiations in order to stay out of the war, while remaining on better terms with the Axis than he would have if he had outright declined an alliance.
** German commanders on the Western Front frequently banked on the Allied tendency (especially Americans) to cease operations with nightfall. So they would avoid pitched battle during the day, delay, retreat and trade space fortime time, only to roll up pretty much directly to the American front in the night, mined, mine, trap and prepare the ground for the next day and start the game anew.
* Also during WWII, ** when the Allies were planning to invade southern Europe from Africa, the British launched a uniformed corpse from a submarine, in an area where the Spanish would recover his body. Chained to his belt was a briefcase that explained that the invasion site would [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial NOT be Sicily]], and hinted instead it would be Greece.[[note]]If the plans were real, there would've been no need to identify the target, because anybody authorized to read them would already know. Thus, not directly mentioning it made the fake plans seem more authentic.[[/note]] With an additional hint that the target could be Sardinia, via an IncrediblyLamePun about sardines. The Spanish under Franco, being on friendly terms with the Germans, found the body and gave the evidence to the German embassy, who bought the story, leaving the invasion site nearly undefended. It may also help that the Abwehr, which asserted the authenticity of the documents, was riddled with British agents, including its head, Admiral Canaris.
** *** The success of this plan, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat]], was actually what led the Germans to disregard other information they'd actually gotten. Once the invasion was complete, they realised they'd been fooled and disregarded several other actual intelligence leaks as simple repeats of Mincemeat.Mincemeat, only realising it once the invasion was complete. Due to the effectiveness of the other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude major deceptive operation]] operation]], this failure included the actual landings at D-Day being ruled as a repeat of Mincemeat.
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** Allied intelligence also effectively played the highly paranoid attitude among German spies and their handlers. They used turned German agents to discredit reports filed by (still loyal) spies. As a result, German intelligence dismissed many of its actual spies in favor ofone double agents who were getting "better" information (who happen to be double agents). information. In one notable case, a Juan Pujol García (German codename "Arabel", British codename "Garbo" "Garbo") managed to stall the advance of tanks to counter the D-Day landings by convincing his handlers that the other spies in France has been turned and that he alone knew that [[BlatantLies Normandy was a diversion attack]] meant to pull troops away from the ''real'' landing site. The Germans were so impressed with this and other information he gave them, he was awarded the [[BlingOfWar Iron Cross Second Class]], an award given only on Hitler's personal authorization. For his service to the British war effort, he was secretly made [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever a Member of the Order of the British Empire]] by King George VI. As a result, he was the only person to be given high honors by both sides of the conflict, conflict for doing the same thing.
** The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while they sent in battleships from the west to attack the mostly defenselesstranports transports at Leyte Gulf. Admiral Halsey, who was in command of the main American fleet, swallowed the bait hook, line line, and sinker. [[LeeroyJenkins Halsey raced north]] to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving almost nothing behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships arrived, they very nearly massacred the American transports and their few escorts. Only a very frantic defense by the Americans and lots of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back.
** The UsefulNotes/AlanTuring team invented Chosen Plaintext Cryptanalysis on Enigma - a method of breaking codes by intentionally feeding known plaintext into an unknown cryptographic system andcompare comparing the output ciphertexts - by exploiting the German standard form naval mine reports. RAF would drop mines at locations chosen by Bletchley Park, so the cryptanalysts can intercept the corresponding encrypted standard form naval mine report and know both most of its exact contents, facilitating the cryptanalysis of Enigma.
** A successfulWWII gambit in a non-combat context: When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was in possession of the Nobel Prize gold medals awarded to German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck. During the occupation, it was illegal to send gold out of the country. Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, then working at the Institute, had a plan. He prepared a jar of aqua regia, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids capable of dissolving gold, and dumped the medals in the acid. De Hevesy then placed the jar on a shelf at his laboratory along with dozens if not hundreds of other jars of chemicals. The Nazis, not knowing any better, ignored the jar. He fled for Sweden in 1943, receiving his own Nobel Prize shortly after arriving in Stockholm, and returned to his old laboratory in Copenhagen after the war to find the jar undisturbed. He then precipitated the gold out of the acid, and sent it to the Nobel committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They then Sciences, and they cast new medals for Laue and Franck from the original gold.
** Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are
** German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble. So the British came up with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship#First_World_War Q-ships]], the latest variation on an old idea. These would be apparent merchant boats that had concealed deck guns behind fake bulkheads. They were purposely sailed into waters where U-boats were known to be active. So when the U-boats saw the Q-ships, they
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** Near the beginning of the war, Hitler and Mussolini attempted to convince Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco to join their Axis. Franco agreed, on the condition that, after the war, Spain received basically all of North Africa that didn't already belong to Italy. This condition was too much for Mussolini, so Spain remained neutral (if Axis-leaning). On one hand, this can be seen as an example of Franco's ego. On the other hand, it is very possible that Franco deliberately overreached during
** German commanders on the Western Front frequently banked on the Allied tendency (especially Americans) to cease operations with nightfall. So they would avoid pitched battle during the day, delay, retreat and trade space for
** Allied intelligence also effectively played the highly paranoid attitude among German spies and their handlers. They used turned German agents to discredit reports filed by (still loyal) spies. As a result, German intelligence dismissed many of its actual spies in favor of
** The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while they sent in battleships from the west to attack the mostly defenseless
** The UsefulNotes/AlanTuring team invented Chosen Plaintext Cryptanalysis on Enigma - a method of breaking codes by intentionally feeding known plaintext into an unknown cryptographic system and
** A successful
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* After ''Film/InTheBedroom'' premiered at Sundance, it got picked up by Creator/{{Miramax}}, to which Harvey Weinstein went with his infamous habit of [[ExecutiveMeddling maniacally editing it without consent]] from director Creator/ToddField. Field panicked and called Creator/TomCruise[[note]]Cruise had befriended Field when they were filming ''Film/EyesWideShut'' together and had encouraged Field to go into directing, not to mention that [[Creator/WilliamMapother his cousin]] was also starring in ''In the Bedroom''[[/note]] for advice. Cruise told Field [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing to not do anything and let Weinstein do as much editing as he wanted]], wait for the edited cut to be received badly by test audiences, therefore forcing Weinstein to begrudgingly release the original cut instead. The result was ''In the Bedroom'' going on to turn a sizable profit, earn five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and for Field to quickly become one of hottest new names in independent cinema.
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** Among many of its schemes, the infamous Berkley Pharmaceuticals, makers of the Enzyte purported penis-enlargement drugs sold by "Smilin' Bob" in its late-night TV commercials, required that if any customer wanted a refund on the grounds the product didn't work, they would not only have to get a doctor to sign a letter that their penes had not changed size but also to have that letter ''notarized'' ... in other words, they had to let a third ''and'' fourth party know of their shameful secret. A federal appellate judge described this as "admittedly ingenious".
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** Among many of its schemes, the infamous Berkley Pharmaceuticals, Berkeley Nutraceuticals, makers of the Enzyte purported penis-enlargement drugs sold by "Smilin' Bob" in its late-night TV commercials, required that if any customer wanted a refund on the grounds the product didn't work, they would not only have to get a doctor to sign a letter that their penes had not changed size but also to have that letter ''notarized'' ... in other words, they had to let a third ''and'' fourth party know of their shameful secret. A federal appellate judge described this as "admittedly ingenious".
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* One tactic reportedly employed by the Ukrainian army against invading Russian forces is to dress up a commercial camera-drone like some kind of armed aerial death machine, then let a small unit of Russian troops spot it ominously flying over them. Alarmed, the Russians fall back to their headquarters to avoid and/or report the "threat", with the drone tracking their movements. Then the Ukranian artillery can barrage the hell out of the thus-pinpointed HQ.
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* Arguably done by 44th President Barack Obama during the first reelection campaign debate against Republican candidate Mitt Romney - according to various political experts. President Obama is known to be a great public speaker and very good at debating because of his Harvard background. However, during the first debate, he appeared weak and subdued while Romney attacked him during the whole debate. Afterwards, the Democratic base demanded that The President stop being a nice guy and show [[AngryBlackMan some fight]]. He would do this in the following debates, especially in the second one, where The President would use a clear Batman Gambit on Romney. Obama brought up his response to Benghazi knowing Romney would jump at the chance to discredit him. Romney accused The President of not calling the Benghazi terrorist attack an "act of terror" immediately after it happened. The President allowed Romney to conclude his accusation, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNd5DutF4c only to get the debate moderator to fact check him during the live debate and prove him wrong live on air.]]
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* Arguably done by 44th President Barack Obama during the first reelection campaign debate against Republican candidate Mitt Romney - according to various political experts. President Obama is known to be a great public speaker and very good at debating because of his Harvard background. However, during the first debate, he appeared weak and subdued while Romney attacked him during the whole debate. Afterwards, the Democratic base demanded that The President stop being a nice guy and show [[AngryBlackMan [[AngryBlackManStereotype some fight]]. He would do this in the following debates, especially in the second one, where The President would use a clear Batman Gambit on Romney. Obama brought up his response to Benghazi knowing Romney would jump at the chance to discredit him. Romney accused The President of not calling the Benghazi terrorist attack an "act of terror" immediately after it happened. The President allowed Romney to conclude his accusation, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNd5DutF4c only to get the debate moderator to fact check him during the live debate and prove him wrong live on air.]]
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** Rosa Parks pulled off a brilliant one when she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus. She was not the first to have refused to give up her seat and get arrested for it. Just a few months before 15 year old girl [[https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin Claudette Colvin]] had done the exact same thing. However Colvin was known to be quite defiant and had frequently gotten into trouble at school and around the city for he refusal to accept segregation laws. As a result local activists, including Parks, realized that the white community would likely not sympathize with her. But they also recognized that she was 100% correct in her refusal so Parks began riding the bus frequently in the seats closest to the “White” section. She deliberately made herself look much older than she was (she was only 42 at the time of the incident) and just waited for someone to order her to move. When she was arrested she was very quiet and cooperative. When the public saw the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#/media/File:Rosa_Parks_Booking.jpg mugshot]] and heard about the incident even some hardcore racists were disturbed by the thought of an “old” woman being forced to give up her seat.
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** Rosa Parks pulled off a brilliant one when she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus. She was not the first to have refused to give up her seat and get arrested for it. Just a few months before 15 year old girl [[https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin Claudette Colvin]] had done the exact same thing. However Colvin was known to be quite defiant and had frequently gotten into trouble at school and around the city for he her refusal to accept segregation laws. As a result local activists, including Parks, realized that the white community would likely not sympathize with her. But they also recognized that she was 100% correct in her refusal so Parks began riding the bus frequently in the seats closest to the “White” section. She deliberately made herself look much older than she was (she was only 42 at the time of the incident) and just waited for someone to order her to move. When she was arrested she was very quiet and cooperative. When the public saw the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#/media/File:Rosa_Parks_Booking.jpg mugshot]] and heard about the incident even some hardcore racists were disturbed by the thought of an “old” woman being forced to give up her seat.
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* UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck, Chancellor of Prussia, successfully manipulated his enemies to unify Germany, using his ally Austria to defeat Denmark, then caused Austria to declare war on Prussia, and finally manipulated France into another war, thus creating the political climate to unite the many German states into a single one. He pulled some of this off by taking advantage of pre-existing circumstances and he lured enemies (and his boss!) into traps several times. Then again, a man wearing [[NiceHat that formidable a hat]] is clearly working at a higher level than most.
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* UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck, Chancellor of Prussia, successfully manipulated his enemies to unify Germany, using his ally Austria to defeat Denmark, then caused Austria to declare war on Prussia, and finally manipulated France into another war, thus creating the political climate to unite the many German states into a single one. He pulled some of this off by taking advantage of pre-existing circumstances and he lured enemies (and his boss!) into traps several times. Then again, a man wearing [[NiceHat that formidable a hat]] hat is clearly working at a higher level than most.
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* One tactic reportedly employed by the Ukrainian army against invading Russian forces is to dress up a commercial camera-drone like some kind of armed aerial death machine, then let a small unit of Russian troops spot it ominously flying over them. Alarmed, the Russians fall back to their headquarters to avoid and/or report the "threat", with the drone tracking their movements. Then the Ukranian artillery can barrage the hell out of the thus-pinpointed HQ.
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* According to some accounts, Bill Clinton may have attempted a Batman Gambit when he encouraged Donald Trump to run for President before the start of the 2016 campaign season. The thinking was that Trump would roil the Republican field of candidates, and while he likely would not get the nomination, the Republicans would have been forced to go with a consensus pick for their candidate, someone who would not have had strong popular support and making it easier for Hillary Clinton to win the election... This could also be placed under NiceJobBreakingItHero, GoneHorriblyRight, or WhatWereYouThinking.
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* According to some accounts, Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign may have [[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/ attempted a Batman Gambit when he encouraged Gambit]] by promoting Donald Trump to run for President before the start of the 2016 campaign season. The and other "pied piper" candidates like Ted Cruz and Ben Carson. Their thinking was that Trump especially would roil the Republican field of candidates, and while he likely would not get the nomination, the Republicans would have been forced to go with a consensus pick for their candidate, someone who would not have had strong popular support and making it easier for Hillary Clinton to win the election...election. Reportedly, Cruz was their preferred opponent, but they also saw Trump as someone they could easily defeat. This could also be placed under NiceJobBreakingItHero, GoneHorriblyRight, or WhatWereYouThinking.
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* A failed attempt at this by {{Creator/Compile}} is the reason why {{Creator/Sega}} currently owns ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''. To alleviate some of the financial stress that Compile was going through in early 1998, they worked out a deal with Sega where they sold the rights to the series but retained nearly-unrestricted usage for roughly four years. Masamitsu Niitani planned to use the borrowed time to raise enough money (presumably through the multitude of SpinOff titles) to buy the series back, but the damage was already done to the company's reputation and they didn't even make it to the end of their deal before they abandoned the series.
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** Speaking of the 2012 elections, Missouri Senator Claire [=McCaskill=] managed to pull off an even more impressive gambit than the president himself. Being a relatively liberal politician in a conservative-leaning state and having been involved in a series of controversies throughout her tenure, [=McCaskill=] was facing rather dismal prospects for reelection. She was trailing all of her potential opponents in the polls and many commentators pegged her as being one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the year. Her campaign’s strategy in response to this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec4t_3vaBMc Run ads]] that implicitly supported the candidacy of Todd Akin, one of the Republicans running against her in the GOP primary. Akin was known to be the most conservative of [=McCaskill=]’s Republican challengers so she would likely have the best chance to win a general election against him by portraying him as too extreme. And sure enough, Akin did win the primary and, just mere days after doing so, made his now infamous [[http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php “legitimate rape” remarks]].[[note]]Akin was attempting to explain why he opposed abortion even for rape victims, by claiming that in cases of "legitimate rape" [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the mother's body would somehow prevent pregnancy,]] thus implying that women who became pregnant by unwanted sex somehow weren't really raped.[[/note]] The result? Akin’s support plummeted over the controversy and [=McCaskill=] ultimately won reelection by a comfortable 55-39% margin even as Obama got routed in Missouri. [=McCaskill=] herself later wrote an article for Politico about the campaign, entitled [[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262 "How I Helped Todd Akin Win - So I Could Beat Him Later".]] [=McCaskill=]’s luck would run out in 2018, as she was handily defeated by state Attorney General Josh Hawley in an otherwise good year for Democrats across the country. Of course, Hawley then infamously supported the Capitol insurrection on January 6th, and for some reason, committing sedition doesn't make you very popular.
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** Rosa Parks pulled off a brilliant one when she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus. She was not the first to have refused to give up her seat and get arrested for it. Just a few months before 15 year old girl [[https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin Claudette Colvin]] had done the exact same thing. However Colvin was known to be quite defiant and had frequently gotten into trouble at school and around the city for he refusal to accept segregation laws. As a result local activists, including Parks, realized that the white community would likely not sympathize with her. But they also recognized that she was 100% correct in her refusal so Parks began riding the bus frequently in the seats closest to the “White” section. She deliberately made herself look much older than she was (she was only 42 at the time of the incident) and just waited for someone to order her to move. When she was arrested she was very quiet and cooperative. When the public saw the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#/media/File:Rosa_Parks_Booking.jpg mugshot]] and heard about the incident even some hardcore racists were disturbed by the thought of an “old” woman being forced to give up her seat.
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** Speaking of the 2012 elections, Missouri Senator Claire [=McCaskill=] managed to pull off an even more impressive gambit than the president himself. Being a relatively liberal politician in a conservative-leaning state and having been involved in a series of controversies throughout her tenure, [=McCaskill=] was facing rather dismal prospects for reelection. She was trailing all of her potential opponents in the polls and many commentators pegged her as being one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the year. Her campaign’s strategy in response to this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec4t_3vaBMc Run ads]] that implicitly supported the candidacy of Todd Akin, one of the Republicans running against her in the GOP primary. Akin was known to be the most conservative of [=McCaskill=]’s Republican challengers so she would likely have the best chance to win a general election against him by portraying him as too extreme. And sure enough, Akin did win the primary and, just mere days after doing so, made his now infamous [[http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php “legitimate rape” remarks]].[[note]]Akin was attempting to explain why he opposed abortion even for rape victims, by claiming that in cases of "legitimate rape" [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the mother's body would somehow prevent pregnancy,]] thus implying that women who became pregnant by unwanted sex somehow weren't really raped.[[/note]] The result? Akin’s support plummeted over the controversy and [=McCaskill=] ultimately won reelection by a comfortable 55-39% margin even as Obama got routed in Missouri. [=McCaskill=] herself later wrote an article for Politico about the campaign, entitled [[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262 "How I Helped Todd Akin Win - So I Could Beat Him Later".]] [=McCaskill=]’s luck would run out in 2018, as she was handily defeated by state Attorney General Josh Hawley in an otherwise good year for Democrats across the country.
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** Speaking of the 2012 elections, Missouri Senator Claire [=McCaskill=] managed to pull off an even more impressive gambit than the president himself. Being a relatively liberal politician in a conservative-leaning state and having been involved in a series of controversies throughout her tenure, [=McCaskill=] was facing rather dismal prospects for reelection. She was trailing all of her potential opponents in the polls and many commentators pegged her as being one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the year. Her campaign’s strategy in response to this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec4t_3vaBMc Run ads]] that implicitly supported the candidacy of Todd Akin, one of the Republicans running against her in the GOP primary. Akin was known to be the most conservative of [=McCaskill=]’s Republican challengers so she would likely have the best chance to win a general election against him by portraying him as too extreme. And sure enough, Akin did win the primary and, just mere days after doing so, made his now infamous [[http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php “legitimate rape” remarks]].[[note]]Akin was attempting to explain why he opposed abortion even for rape victims, by claiming that in cases of "legitimate rape" [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the mother's body would somehow prevent pregnancy,]] thus implying that women who became pregnant by unwanted sex somehow weren't really raped.[[/note]] The result? Akin’s support plummeted over the controversy and [=McCaskill=] ultimately won reelection by a comfortable 55-39% margin even as Obama got routed in Missouri. [=McCaskill=] herself later wrote an article for Politico about the campaign, entitled [[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262 "How I Helped Todd Akin Win - So I Could Beat Him Later".]] [=McCaskill=]’s luck would run out in 2018, as she was handily defeated by state Attorney General Josh Hawley in an otherwise good year for Democrats across the country. Of course, Hawley then infamously supported the Capitol insurrection on January 6th, and for some reason, committing sedition doesn't make you very popular.
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** Speaking of the 2012 elections, Missouri Senator Claire [=McCaskill=] managed to pull off an even more impressive gambit than the president himself. Being a relatively liberal politician in a conservative-leaning state and having been involved in a series of controversies throughout her tenure, [=McCaskill=] was facing rather dismal prospects for reelection. She was trailing all of her potential opponents in the polls and many commentators pegged her as being one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the year. Her campaign’s strategy in response to this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec4t_3vaBMc Run ads]] that implicitly supported the candidacy of Todd Akin, one of the Republicans running against her in the GOP primary. Akin was known to be the most conservative of [=McCaskill=]’s Republican challengers so she would likely have the best chance to win a general election against him by portraying him as too extreme. And sure enough, Akin did win the primary and, just mere days after doing so, made his now infamous [[http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php “legitimate rape” remarks]].[[note]]Akin was attempting to explain why he opposed abortion even for rape victims, by claiming that in cases of "legitimate rape" [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the mother's body would somehow prevent pregnancy,]] thus implying that women who became pregnant by unwanted sex somehow weren't really raped.[[/note]] The result? Akin’s support plummeted over the controversy and [=McCaskill=] ultimately won reelection by a comfortable 55-39% margin. [=McCaskill=] herself later wrote an article for Politico about the campaign, entitled [[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262 "How I Helped Todd Akin Win - So I Could Beat Him Later".]]
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** Speaking of the 2012 elections, Missouri Senator Claire [=McCaskill=] managed to pull off an even more impressive gambit than the president himself. Being a relatively liberal politician in a conservative-leaning state and having been involved in a series of controversies throughout her tenure, [=McCaskill=] was facing rather dismal prospects for reelection. She was trailing all of her potential opponents in the polls and many commentators pegged her as being one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the year. Her campaign’s strategy in response to this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec4t_3vaBMc Run ads]] that implicitly supported the candidacy of Todd Akin, one of the Republicans running against her in the GOP primary. Akin was known to be the most conservative of [=McCaskill=]’s Republican challengers so she would likely have the best chance to win a general election against him by portraying him as too extreme. And sure enough, Akin did win the primary and, just mere days after doing so, made his now infamous [[http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php “legitimate rape” remarks]].[[note]]Akin was attempting to explain why he opposed abortion even for rape victims, by claiming that in cases of "legitimate rape" [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the mother's body would somehow prevent pregnancy,]] thus implying that women who became pregnant by unwanted sex somehow weren't really raped.[[/note]] The result? Akin’s support plummeted over the controversy and [=McCaskill=] ultimately won reelection by a comfortable 55-39% margin.margin even as Obama got routed in Missouri. [=McCaskill=] herself later wrote an article for Politico about the campaign, entitled [[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262 "How I Helped Todd Akin Win - So I Could Beat Him Later".]]]] [=McCaskill=]’s luck would run out in 2018, as she was handily defeated by state Attorney General Josh Hawley in an otherwise good year for Democrats across the country.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafia_family_murders The Shafia family murders]] ended up using this trope to capture those responsible for four women's deaths. They were more than certain that Mohammad and Hamed, patriarch of the Shafia family and his son, were responsible for the deaths of their daughters and Mohammad's first wife, but they needed proof. Taking the two and Tooba, matriarch of the family, to where the women were found, the police set up a fake camera at a nearby building with the idea of hoping that they would focus more on that, while planting a wiretap device on their car. To the police's shock, they were right on the money about Mohammad and Hamed as they did the murders as a "honor killing"; what they didn't expect was that Tooba had participated in it as well.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafia_family_murders The Shafia family murders]] ended up using this trope to capture those responsible for four women's deaths. They were more than certain that Mohammad and Hamed, patriarch of the Shafia family and his son, were responsible for the deaths of their daughters and Mohammad's first wife, but they needed proof. Taking the two and Tooba, matriarch of the family, to where the women were found, the police set up a fake camera at a nearby building with the idea of hoping that they would focus more on that, while planting a wiretap device on their car. Indeed, they did focus on the camera and figured it was a fake, dismissing it and discussing what happened when no officers were around. To the police's shock, they were right on the money about Mohammad and Hamed as they did the murders as a "honor killing"; what they didn't expect was that Tooba had participated in it as well.
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* [[Music/Anthrax Scott Ian]] revealed in his biography that this was how Music/Metallica fired [[Music/Megadeth Dave Mustaine]] from the band; Dave was an angry, belligerent drunk and it was becoming impossible to deal with him the more success they got. When he showed up excessively drunk to an afternoon soundcheck and shouted abuse at the other bands, Metallica decided then and there it was time for him to go. They waited for a night where he got wasted again (which didn't take long), and sent him on a Greyhound bus back home the next day when he was too hungover to understand what was going on.
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* [[Music/Anthrax Scott Ian]] Ian revealed in his biography that this was how Music/Metallica Metallica fired [[Music/Megadeth Dave Mustaine]] Mustaine from the band; Dave was an angry, belligerent drunk and it was becoming impossible to deal with him the more success they got. When he showed up excessively drunk to an afternoon soundcheck and shouted abuse at the other bands, Metallica decided then and there it was time for him to go. They waited for a night where he got wasted again (which didn't take long), and sent him on a Greyhound bus back home the next day when he was too hungover to understand what was going on.
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* [[Music/Anthrax Scott Ian]] revealed in his biography that this was how Music/Metallica fired [[Music/Megadeth Dave Mustaine]] from the band; Dave was an angry, belligerent drunk and it was becoming impossible to deal with him the more success they got. When he showed up excessively drunk to an afternoon soundcheck and shouted abuse at the other bands, Metallica decided then and there it was time for him to go. They waited for a night where he got wasted again (which didn't take long), and sent him on a Greyhound bus back home the next day when he was too hungover to understand what was going on.
-->'''Scott Ian:''' They had the whole operation planned out with the precision of a military air strike.
-->'''Scott Ian:''' They had the whole operation planned out with the precision of a military air strike.
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** Particularly notable because the Russian general Kutuzov, who had actually occupied the Heights, had saw through the ruse and ignored orders from his immediate superior Von Weyrother (Austrian general and commander of the combined Austrian-Russian army) of leaving to attack Napoleon. The battle ended in a Napoleonic victory because the czar Alexander I considered Kutuzov an old fool and forced him to obey Von Weyrother. Alexander would learn his lesson, and when Napoleon later invaded Russia he ordered Kutuzov to stop Napoleon. Kutuzov would later pull a BatmanGambit on Napoleon, letting him waste the ''Grande Armée'' in a vain offensive against Moscow under the impression that Russia would surrender and then keeping him there until winter, and blocking Napoleon's only way to retreat where there was any food.
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** Particularly notable because the Russian general Kutuzov, who had actually occupied the Heights, had saw seen through the ruse and ignored orders from his immediate superior Von Weyrother (Austrian general and commander of the combined Austrian-Russian army) of leaving to attack Napoleon. The battle ended in a Napoleonic victory because the czar Alexander I considered Kutuzov an old fool and forced him to obey Von Weyrother. Alexander would learn his lesson, and when Napoleon later invaded Russia he ordered Kutuzov to stop Napoleon. Kutuzov would later pull a BatmanGambit on Napoleon, letting him waste the ''Grande Armée'' in a vain offensive against Moscow under the impression that Russia would surrender and then keeping him there until winter, and blocking Napoleon's only way to retreat where there was any food.
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** Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breath), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
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** Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breath), breathe), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
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** Johnny Cochran and F. Lee Bailey teamed up on to deploy this trope on Christopher Darden, resulting in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Mason_moment#O.J._Simpson_trial the glove demonstration]], the Perry Mason moment in the O.J. Simpson trial. When the prosecution introduced the gloves into evidence, they referred to them as they had an expert from the manufacturer testify as the gloves just sat there on the table. Bailey looked at them during a break and realized they were too small to fit O.J. So he went up to Darden and told him he had "all the balls of a stud field mouse" since he wasn't having O.J. try on the gloves, adding that if he didn't, the defense would. So when the testimony resumed, Darden went straight to Judge Ito and asked him if Simpson could try the gloves on. Cochran raised minor objections, like that O.J. could try them on if and when he testified--which of course made Darden even more determined to have O.J. try them on, and finally Cochran relented and Ito told him to go ahead. After the gloves spectacularly failed to fit, perceptive analysts realized the acquittal was coming.
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** Johnny Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey teamed up on to deploy this trope on Christopher Darden, resulting in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Mason_moment#O.J._Simpson_trial the glove demonstration]], the Perry Mason moment in the [[Creator/OJSimpson O.J. Simpson Simpson]] trial. When the prosecution introduced the gloves into evidence, they referred to them as they had an expert from the manufacturer testify as the gloves just sat there on the table. Bailey looked at them during a break and realized they were too small to fit O.J. So he went up to Darden and told him he had "all the balls of a stud field mouse" since he wasn't having O.J. try on the gloves, adding that if he didn't, the defense would. So when the testimony resumed, Darden went straight to Judge Ito and asked him if Simpson could try the gloves on. Cochran raised minor objections, like that O.J. could try them on if and when he testified--which of course made Darden even more determined to have O.J. try them on, and finally Cochran relented and Ito told him to go ahead. After the gloves spectacularly failed to fit, perceptive analysts realized the acquittal was coming.
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* Robert E. Lee attempted one of these in his first large-scale maneuver into the North. He split his army up into mutually non-supporting groups to go after divergent objectives, which would normally have been very unsound. But he knew that the opposing Union Army was led by George [=McClellan=], excellent at training and good for morale, but exceeding cautious and indecisive in his movements. Lee counted on [=McClellan=] having such a delayed noncommittal reaction upon discovering Lee's invasion, that he would have plenty of time to gather the portions of his army together before battle. He also counted on [=McClellan=] being so worried of even the possibility of a battle where the odds were not with him, that if he ''did'' catch a small portion of Lee's army off guard before it recombined, he would wait and make sure it really was the smaller force it appeared to be before he actually attacked it, giving it time to withdraw towards the other groups. It was a very good assessment of how [=McClellan=] would likely have acted, had a lost copy of Lee's deployment plans not been discovered, giving [=McClellan=] certainly that Lee's forces were scattered and encouraging him to move unusually rapidly so that he could attack right away before Lee was ready, ending Lee's invasion almost before it began. Even so, Lee's gambit still had some payoff, as [=McClellan=]'s attack was still rather ponderous and failed to press it's full advantage of numbers, so that the resulting Battle of Antietam was a draw when the "Lost Orders" could have resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Confederacy.
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* Robert E. Lee attempted one of these in his first large-scale maneuver into the North. He split his army up into mutually non-supporting groups to go after divergent objectives, which would normally have been very unsound. But he knew that the opposing Union Army was led by George [=McClellan=], excellent at training and good for morale, but exceeding exceedingly cautious and indecisive in his movements. Lee counted on [=McClellan=] having such a delayed noncommittal reaction upon discovering Lee's invasion, that he would have plenty of time to gather the portions of his army together before battle. He also counted on [=McClellan=] being so worried of even the possibility of a battle where the odds were not with him, that if he ''did'' catch a small portion of Lee's army off guard before it recombined, he would wait and make sure it really was the smaller force it appeared to be before he actually attacked it, giving it time to withdraw towards the other groups. It was a very good assessment of how [=McClellan=] would likely have acted, had a lost copy of Lee's deployment plans not been discovered, giving [=McClellan=] certainly that Lee's forces were scattered and encouraging him to move unusually rapidly so that he could attack right away before Lee was ready, ending Lee's invasion almost before it began. Even so, Lee's gambit still had some payoff, as [=McClellan=]'s attack was still rather ponderous and failed to press it's full advantage of numbers, so that the resulting Battle of Antietam was a draw when the "Lost Orders" could have resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Confederacy.
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* Music/FiftyCent pulled off a masterful example of this scheme with his BreakthroughHit, "How to Rob." At the time, 50 was an unknown artist signed to major label Columbia Records, where if he didn't get some attention fast, his music would go under-promoted and he would be lost in the shuffle. So he decided to make a song where he listed off dozens of rappers and R&B singers and how he would rob each one of them, counting on them to find out about it and diss him by name, thereby increasing his exposure. The resulting backlash got him mentions from everybody from the Music/WuTangClan to Music/BigPun to Music/JayZ, putting him on the map in New York and opening the door for a long, successful career.
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* Music/FiftyCent pulled off a masterful example of this scheme with his BreakthroughHit, "How to Rob." Rob". At the time, 50 was an unknown artist signed to major label Columbia Records, where if he didn't get some attention fast, his music would go under-promoted and he would be lost in the shuffle. So he decided to make a song where he listed off dozens of rappers and R&B singers and how he would rob each one of them, counting on them to find out about it and diss him by name, thereby increasing his exposure. The resulting backlash got him mentions from everybody from the Music/WuTangClan to Music/BigPun to Music/JayZ, putting him on the map in New York and opening the door for a long, successful career.
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* U.S Senator Doug Jones pulled a masterful gambit during his run in the Alabama Senate race. Well aware of Roy Moore's shortcomings, with many moderates and suburbanites deeply nervous over Moore being booted off the state Supreme Court twice, Jones repeatedly hit Moore over the head as an incredible embarrassment to the state, while polishing himself as a compromiser who would not humiliate the state. This message was greatly helped by the plethora of corruption scandals involving Alabama Republicans in the prior years, and thus, the staunchly conservative Alabama electorate broke for the "outsider" Moore in the Republican primary over the disliked "establishment" incumbent Luther Strange. The final nail in the coffin were the allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Moore. Many moderates and suburban voters decided, that as much as they were wary of Doug Jones, Moore was too extreme.
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* U.S S. Senator Doug Jones pulled a masterful gambit during his run in the 2017 special election for the Alabama Senate race.seat that had been vacated when Jeff Sessions became UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's Attorney General. Well aware of Roy Moore's shortcomings, with many moderates and suburbanites deeply nervous over Moore being booted off the state Supreme Court twice, Jones repeatedly hit Moore over the head as an incredible embarrassment to the state, while polishing himself as a compromiser who would not humiliate the state. This message was greatly helped by the plethora of corruption scandals involving Alabama Republicans in the prior years, and thus, the staunchly conservative Alabama electorate broke for the "outsider" Moore in the Republican primary over the disliked "establishment" incumbent Luther Strange. The final nail in the coffin were the allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Moore. Many moderates and suburban voters decided, that as much as they were wary of Doug Jones, Moore was too extreme.[[labelnote:Postscript]]Jones couldn't win a full term in 2020, losing in the general election to former [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Auburn football]] coach Tommy Tuberville.[[/labelnote]]
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Another WWII Batman gambit: Aqua regia and Nobel Prize gold medals.
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** The success of this plan, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat]], was actually what led the Germans to disregard other information they'd actually gotten. Once the invasion was complete, they realised they'd been fooled and disregarded several other actual intelligence leaks as simple repeats of Mincemeat. Due to the effectiveness of the other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude major deceptive operation]] this failure included the actual landings at D-Day being ruled as a repeat of Mincemeat.
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** The success of this plan, [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat Operation Mincemeat]], was actually what led the Germans to disregard other information they'd actually gotten. Once the invasion was complete, they realised they'd been fooled and disregarded several other actual intelligence leaks as simple repeats of Mincemeat. Due to the effectiveness of the other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude major deceptive operation]] this failure included the actual landings at D-Day being ruled as a repeat of Mincemeat.
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** A successful WWII gambit in a non-combat context: When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was in possession of the Nobel Prize gold medals awarded to German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck. During the occupation, it was illegal to send gold out of the country. Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, then working at the Institute, had a plan. He prepared a jar of aqua regia, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids capable of dissolving gold, and dumped the medals in the acid. De Hevesy then placed the jar on a shelf at his laboratory along with dozens if not hundreds of other jars of chemicals. The Nazis, not knowing any better, ignored the jar. He fled for Sweden in 1943, receiving his own Nobel Prize shortly after arriving in Stockholm, and returned to his old laboratory in Copenhagen after the war to find the jar undisturbed. He then precipitated the gold out of the acid, and sent it to the Nobel committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They then cast new medals for Laue and Franck from the original gold.
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** Konrad Adenauer was also quite famous for his Batman Gambits. For example, Adenauer manipulated the Communist party of Germany (whom he actually despised) so they supported him on a specific project of building a bridge.
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* An escalating war of batman gambits emerged in the use of artillery in WWI. Infantry would attack after their own side's artillery significantly barraged the enemy's trenches so the enemy's infantry (that would have been taking cover in their dugouts during the barrage) would have made to immediately form up in their trenches after a large barrage ended. Sometimes instead of having the infantry attack after a big artillery barrage, the artillery would wait a bit and then fire again in the hopes of killing more infantry that would have gotten out of their cover, fire off gas shells to hit as much of the enemy as possible as they ran out of their dugouts, or barrage the enemy on-and-off continuously to prevent the enemy from sleeping from being on alert in expectation of an attack/bait them into not expecting an upcoming night raid...until they eventually actually just did a barrage for preceding an infantry attack, of course.
** Gas attacks quickly used this trope, due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, so there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breath), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
** An accidental use of this trope occurred with the Canadian 85th Highlanders of Nova Scotia battalion during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Ordered to attack the German's linchpin position Hill 145, which had fended off other attacks while artillery failed to suppress the defenders, the 85th would succeed...after their artillery barrage was called off unbeknownst to them up to the moment of the attack out of an officer's fear it would cause friendly fire to them from how close their jumping-off trenches were to the enemy's line and probably gave their attack the element of surprise. [[AchievementsInIgnorance The unit being totally green for actual battles]] up until this point [[CrazyEnoughToWork may have explained why they did it at all]].
* German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble during World War I, nearly strangling British shipping. And at that time there were few effective defenses against them ... depth charges might take them out, but they were highly imperfect at that time. The only way most surface ships had a fighting chance against a U-boat was if they could get it to the surface and ram it or sink it with their deck guns.
** So the British came up with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship#First_World_War Q-ships]], the latest variation on an old idea. These would be apparent tramp steamers or other merchant boats that had concealed deck guns of their own, easily exposed by removing the fake bulkheads in front of them. They were purposely sailed into waters where U-boats were known to be active.
** Their success depended on U-boats having a limited supply of torpedoes, and more ammunition for their deck guns. Against an (apparently) unarmed or lightly armed (read: non-naval) vessel, it made much more sense for U-boats to surface, sink the ship with their deck guns and resubmerge, saving their torpedoes for military targets that could easily sink ''them'' if they had to surface.
** So ... when the U-boats saw the Q-ships, they surfaced—only for the crews to remove the fake bulkheads, run up the Royal Navy ensign and fire away. Often they were able to sink the U-boats before their counterparts on the U-boat could even get to their stations. Later on they got even more clever ... the boats would be loaded with light cargo like balsa wood so that it would stay afloat even if torpedoed, encouraging U-boat commanders to surface and finish the job from there. Sometimes the "crews" would even abandon ship to further entice the U-boat up into gun range. About 14 U-boats in all were sunk by the Q-ships, which however was not enough for the Royal Navy to justify the program's continuation in future wars. It didn't help that U-Boat commanders eventually grew wary of the trick, and instead would just [[GoneHorriblyRight torpedo any ship they came across without warning, rather than risk getting shot at]]. Though [[XanatosGambit this was still considered an overall "win" for the British]], since as mentioned the U-boats only carried a handful of torpedoes (many of the early models had only 6 torpedo tubes with no reloads, and even the late-model U-boats that were large enough to have onboard reloads had fewer than 20 torpedoes total), and to increase the probability of scoring a hit it was typical to fire more than one torpedo at a single ship. A U-boat captain who was unwilling to risk a surface attack with the deck gun therefore had a strict upper limit to how many ships it was possible for him to sink on a single patrol. While each individual ship attacked was more likely to sink and the crew was less likely to be able to safely abandon ship, the total number of ships lost was still reduced.
** Gas attacks quickly used this trope, due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, so there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breath), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
** An accidental use of this trope occurred with the Canadian 85th Highlanders of Nova Scotia battalion during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Ordered to attack the German's linchpin position Hill 145, which had fended off other attacks while artillery failed to suppress the defenders, the 85th would succeed...after their artillery barrage was called off unbeknownst to them up to the moment of the attack out of an officer's fear it would cause friendly fire to them from how close their jumping-off trenches were to the enemy's line and probably gave their attack the element of surprise. [[AchievementsInIgnorance The unit being totally green for actual battles]] up until this point [[CrazyEnoughToWork may have explained why they did it at all]].
* German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble during World War I, nearly strangling British shipping. And at that time there were few effective defenses against them ... depth charges might take them out, but they were highly imperfect at that time. The only way most surface ships had a fighting chance against a U-boat was if they could get it to the surface and ram it or sink it with their deck guns.
** So the British came up with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship#First_World_War Q-ships]], the latest variation on an old idea. These would be apparent tramp steamers or other merchant boats that had concealed deck guns of their own, easily exposed by removing the fake bulkheads in front of them. They were purposely sailed into waters where U-boats were known to be active.
** Their success depended on U-boats having a limited supply of torpedoes, and more ammunition for their deck guns. Against an (apparently) unarmed or lightly armed (read: non-naval) vessel, it made much more sense for U-boats to surface, sink the ship with their deck guns and resubmerge, saving their torpedoes for military targets that could easily sink ''them'' if they had to surface.
** So ... when the U-boats saw the Q-ships, they surfaced—only for the crews to remove the fake bulkheads, run up the Royal Navy ensign and fire away. Often they were able to sink the U-boats before their counterparts on the U-boat could even get to their stations. Later on they got even more clever ... the boats would be loaded with light cargo like balsa wood so that it would stay afloat even if torpedoed, encouraging U-boat commanders to surface and finish the job from there. Sometimes the "crews" would even abandon ship to further entice the U-boat up into gun range. About 14 U-boats in all were sunk by the Q-ships, which however was not enough for the Royal Navy to justify the program's continuation in future wars. It didn't help that U-Boat commanders eventually grew wary of the trick, and instead would just [[GoneHorriblyRight torpedo any ship they came across without warning, rather than risk getting shot at]]. Though [[XanatosGambit this was still considered an overall "win" for the British]], since as mentioned the U-boats only carried a handful of torpedoes (many of the early models had only 6 torpedo tubes with no reloads, and even the late-model U-boats that were large enough to have onboard reloads had fewer than 20 torpedoes total), and to increase the probability of scoring a hit it was typical to fire more than one torpedo at a single ship. A U-boat captain who was unwilling to risk a surface attack with the deck gun therefore had a strict upper limit to how many ships it was possible for him to sink on a single patrol. While each individual ship attacked was more likely to sink and the crew was less likely to be able to safely abandon ship, the total number of ships lost was still reduced.
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** An escalating war ofbatman gambits Batman Gambits emerged in the use of artillery in WWI. Infantry would attack after their own side's artillery significantly barraged the enemy's trenches so the enemy's infantry (that would have been taking cover in their dugouts during the barrage) would have made to immediately form up in their trenches after a large barrage ended. Sometimes instead of having the infantry attack after a big artillery barrage, the artillery would wait a bit and then fire again in the hopes of killing more infantry that would have gotten out of their cover, fire off gas shells to hit as much of the enemy as possible as they ran out of their dugouts, or barrage the enemy on-and-off continuously to prevent the enemy from sleeping from being on alert in expectation of an attack/bait them into not expecting an upcoming night raid...until they eventually actually just did a barrage for preceding an infantry attack, of course.
**Gas attacks quickly used this trope, due Due to the proliferation of gas masks in the war making the gas a lot less likely to be actually lethal, so there were many occasions where smelly-but-harmless agents were released to just hamper the defenders (gas masks are highly restrictive and uncomfortable for a person's ability to see and breath), or gas and the "stink bombs" were used interspersed between different barrages to stress out defenders longer, or a ''lot'' of gas was used onto a location not for the purpose of killing the defenders, but getting them to flee it due to how there would be so much gas that their gas mask's filters would eventually fail if they stayed in their posts.
**An accidental use of this trope occurred with the Canadian 85th Highlanders of Nova Scotia battalion during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Ordered to attack the German's linchpin position Hill 145, which had fended off other attacks while artillery failed to suppress the defenders, the 85th would succeed...after their artillery barrage was called off unbeknownst to them up to the moment of the attack out of an officer's fear it would cause friendly fire to them from how close their jumping-off trenches were to the enemy's line and probably gave their attack the element of surprise. [[AchievementsInIgnorance The unit being totally green for actual battles]] up until this point [[CrazyEnoughToWork may have explained why they did it at all]].
*German U-boats were causing the Allies, the British in particular, no end of trouble during World War I, nearly strangling British shipping. And at that time there were few effective defenses against them ... depth charges might take them out, but they were highly imperfect at that time. The only way most surface ships had a fighting chance against a U-boat was if they could get it to the surface and ram it or sink it with their deck guns.
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** Their success depended on U-boats having a limited supply of torpedoes, and more ammunition for their deck guns. Against an (apparently) unarmed or lightly armed (read: non-naval) vessel, it made much more sense for U-boats to surface, sink the ship with their deck guns and resubmerge, saving their torpedoes for military targets that could easily sink ''them'' if they had to surface.
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* U.S Senator Doug Jones pulled a masterful gambit during his run in the Alabama Senate race. Well aware of Roy Moore's shortcomings, with many moderates and suburbanites deeply nervous over Moore being booted off the state Supreme Court twice, Jones repeteadly hit Moore over the head as an incredible embarrassment to the state, while polishing himself as a compromiser who would not humiliate the state. This message was greatly helped by the plethora of corruption scandals involving Alabama Republicans in the prior years, and the final nail in the coffin were the allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Moore. Many moderates and suburban voters decided, that as much as they were wary of Doug Jones, Moore was too extreme.
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* U.S Senator Doug Jones pulled a masterful gambit during his run in the Alabama Senate race. Well aware of Roy Moore's shortcomings, with many moderates and suburbanites deeply nervous over Moore being booted off the state Supreme Court twice, Jones repeteadly repeatedly hit Moore over the head as an incredible embarrassment to the state, while polishing himself as a compromiser who would not humiliate the state. This message was greatly helped by the plethora of corruption scandals involving Alabama Republicans in the prior years, and thus, the staunchly conservative Alabama electorate broke for the "outsider" Moore in the Republican primary over the disliked "establishment" incumbent Luther Strange. The final nail in the coffin were the allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Moore. Many moderates and suburban voters decided, that as much as they were wary of Doug Jones, Moore was too extreme.
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** The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while they sent in battleships from the west to attack the mostly defenseless tranports at Leyte Gulf. Admiral Halsey, who was in command of the main American fleet, swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. Halsey raced north to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving almost nothing behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships arrived, they very nearly massacred the American transports and their few escorts. Only a very frantic defense by the Americans and lots of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back.
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** The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while they sent in battleships from the west to attack the mostly defenseless tranports at Leyte Gulf. Admiral Halsey, who was in command of the main American fleet, swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. [[LeeroyJenkins Halsey raced north north]] to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving almost nothing behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships arrived, they very nearly massacred the American transports and their few escorts. Only a very frantic defense by the Americans and lots of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back.
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** So, when Tarleton's wet, cold and tired troops advanced on Morgan's men, they saw the Patriots quickly scatter under pressure. Thinking they had another one in the bag, the redcoats marched ahead ... into a suddenly stronger Continental presence, where they were suddenly flanked where they had expected to see reinforcements. Half the British troops fell to the ground from the shock rather than any wounds, due to their extreme fatigue and hunger.
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** So, when Tarleton's wet, cold and tired troops advanced on Morgan's men, they saw the Patriots quickly scatter under pressure. Thinking they had another one in the bag, the redcoats marched ahead ... [[DefensiveFeintTrap into a suddenly stronger Continental presence, where they were suddenly flanked flanked]] where they had expected to see reinforcements. Half the British troops fell to the ground from the shock rather than any wounds, due to their extreme fatigue and hunger.
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** The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Pacific Theatre. The Japanese, having lost most of their carrier-trained pilots in the prior Battle of the Philippine Sea, decided to use their remaining mostly-empty aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the American carrier fleet to the north, while a group of battleships and cruisers came in from another direction to attack the amphibious landing site at Leyte Gulf. Although the battleship force was detected and attacked by the Americans and thought to have turned back, it later turned around to resume the attack. Meanwhile, Admiral Halsey in command of the American carriers received word of the Japanese carriers to the north and swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. Halsey raced north to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving no other ships behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships showed up, they very nearly massacred the few small escort carriers and destroyers present. Only a lot of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese, and the [[RefugeInAudacity brave efforts of American sailors and pilots]] eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back and abort his mission.
** How bad was it? American Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts were going toe to toe with Heavy Cruisers and Battleships, which is a little like a feral cat fighting a lion. The Destroyer Escort's armament largely couldn't even get through the Heavy Cruiser's hulls. The tenacity of the American forces, use of smoke screens, and concentrated air power actually convinced the Japanese forces that they were hitting a much larger force, and eventually caused them to retreat. While preparing their aircraft for the attack, the escort carriers of the American forces actually fired their 5 inch guns at the enemy.
** The American forces present in the battle (The Battle off Samar) were sixteen slow, unarmored escort carriers, with a small screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts. The Japanese fielded four battleships (including their largest, the Yamato, which was effectively a super-heavy battleship and ''outweighed the entire American fleet at Samar combined''), six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eleven destroyers. The only clear advantage the American forces had was overwhelming air superiority, with 450 aircraft in the fight (though their operation was disrupted by a rainstorm and constant harassment of the carriers by Japanese forces, and the planes were equipped with general purpose bombs for supporting ground troops, rather than armor-piercing bombs and torpedoes for attacking ships).
** How bad was it? American Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts were going toe to toe with Heavy Cruisers and Battleships, which is a little like a feral cat fighting a lion. The Destroyer Escort's armament largely couldn't even get through the Heavy Cruiser's hulls. The tenacity of the American forces, use of smoke screens, and concentrated air power actually convinced the Japanese forces that they were hitting a much larger force, and eventually caused them to retreat. While preparing their aircraft for the attack, the escort carriers of the American forces actually fired their 5 inch guns at the enemy.
** The American forces present in the battle (The Battle off Samar) were sixteen slow, unarmored escort carriers, with a small screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts. The Japanese fielded four battleships (including their largest, the Yamato, which was effectively a super-heavy battleship and ''outweighed the entire American fleet at Samar combined''), six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eleven destroyers. The only clear advantage the American forces had was overwhelming air superiority, with 450 aircraft in the fight (though their operation was disrupted by a rainstorm and constant harassment of the carriers by Japanese forces, and the planes were equipped with general purpose bombs for supporting ground troops, rather than armor-piercing bombs and torpedoes for attacking ships).
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** The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Pacific Theatre. Gulf. The Japanese, having lost most of their carrier-trained pilots in the prior Battle of the Philippine Sea, decided Japanese came up with a plan to use their remaining mostly-empty aircraft carriers as bait. The hope was to lure the main American carrier fleet to the north, while a group of they sent in battleships and cruisers came in from another direction the west to attack the amphibious landing site mostly defenseless tranports at Leyte Gulf. Although the battleship force was detected and attacked by the Americans and thought to have turned back, it later turned around to resume the attack. Meanwhile, Admiral Halsey Halsey, who was in command of the main American carriers received word of the Japanese carriers to the north and fleet, swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker. Halsey raced north to attack the Japanese carriers, leaving no other ships almost nothing behind to defend Leyte Gulf. When the Japanese battleships showed up, arrived, they very nearly massacred the American transports and their few small escort carriers and destroyers present. escorts. Only a lot very frantic defense by the Americans and lots of miscommunication and confusion on the part of the Japanese, and the [[RefugeInAudacity brave efforts of American sailors and pilots]] Japanese eventually convinced the Japanese commander to turn back and abort his mission.
** How bad was it? American Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts were going toe to toe with Heavy Cruisers and Battleships, which is a little like a feral cat fighting a lion. The Destroyer Escort's armament largely couldn't even get through the Heavy Cruiser's hulls. The tenacity of the American forces, use of smoke screens, and concentrated air power actually convinced the Japanese forces that they were hitting a much larger force, and eventually caused them to retreat. While preparing their aircraft for the attack, the escort carriers of the American forces actually fired their 5 inch guns at the enemy.
** The American forces present in the battle (The Battle off Samar) were sixteen slow, unarmored escort carriers, with a small screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts. The Japanese fielded four battleships (including their largest, the Yamato, which was effectively a super-heavy battleship and ''outweighed the entire American fleet at Samar combined''), six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eleven destroyers. The only clear advantage the American forces had was overwhelming air superiority, with 450 aircraft in the fight (though their operation was disrupted by a rainstorm and constant harassment of the carriers by Japanese forces, and the planes were equipped with general purpose bombs for supporting ground troops, rather than armor-piercing bombs and torpedoes for attacking ships).back.
** How bad was it? American Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts were going toe to toe with Heavy Cruisers and Battleships, which is a little like a feral cat fighting a lion. The Destroyer Escort's armament largely couldn't even get through the Heavy Cruiser's hulls. The tenacity of the American forces, use of smoke screens, and concentrated air power actually convinced the Japanese forces that they were hitting a much larger force, and eventually caused them to retreat. While preparing their aircraft for the attack, the escort carriers of the American forces actually fired their 5 inch guns at the enemy.
** The American forces present in the battle (The Battle off Samar) were sixteen slow, unarmored escort carriers, with a small screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts. The Japanese fielded four battleships (including their largest, the Yamato, which was effectively a super-heavy battleship and ''outweighed the entire American fleet at Samar combined''), six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eleven destroyers. The only clear advantage the American forces had was overwhelming air superiority, with 450 aircraft in the fight (though their operation was disrupted by a rainstorm and constant harassment of the carriers by Japanese forces, and the planes were equipped with general purpose bombs for supporting ground troops, rather than armor-piercing bombs and torpedoes for attacking ships).
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How LBJ got Tom Clark off the US Supreme Court
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* One of Harry Truman's greatest regrets about his presidency was having appointed one of his longtime allies, Attorney General Tom Clark, to the Supreme Court, where he became the only reliably conservative member of the relatively liberal Warren Court throughout the '50s and '60s. Kennedy wasn't too fond of him either, and neither was his successor Lyndon Johnson, who, as the famously crafty politician he was, actually came up with a way to get Clark off the court that made excellent use of this trope: He appointed Clark's son Ramsey to be ''his'' Attorney General[[note]]the most liberal to ever hold that position[[/note]]. Since that meant the elder Clark would have to recuse himself from just about every case the federal government was involved in before the Supreme Court, and those cases account for at least half the Court's caseload every term, Clark really had no choice but to resign from the Court as that would leave the possibility of too many cases and their important issues remaining undecided if the other eight justices deadlocked.
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** In the German campaign of the Sixth Coalition, the Coalition realized that Napoleon was still a highly skillful adversary. Therefore, they decided on the Trachenberg Plan, where they would avoid fighting Napoleon himself, but would fight his Marshals in separate battles. The Coalition believed that Napoleon would try to get into a pitched battle with their armies and defeat them separately, while sending his Marshals to other objectives. Napoleon did not disappoint, and he repeatedly got suckered into sending his Marshals into defeats that would drain his army of manpower for much of the campaign.
*** They pulled another gambit on Napoleon in the final battle of the campaign at Leipzig. Their three combined armies had such an overwhelming number of half a million men that if Napoleon chose to stand and fight, it would quickly boil down to numbers, a fight that Napoleon would clearly lose. An overwhelming majority of his Marshals urged Napoleon to fall back to the Rhine rather than fight at Leipzig, but Napoleon knew that fleeing at Leipzig would result in the abandonment of France by his German allies, whereas the Napoleon of old would have immediately tried to retreat. Napoleon chose to stand and fight, and following the loss of Leipzig was quickly left without much of an army to defend France.
*** They pulled another gambit on Napoleon in the final battle of the campaign at Leipzig. Their three combined armies had such an overwhelming number of half a million men that if Napoleon chose to stand and fight, it would quickly boil down to numbers, a fight that Napoleon would clearly lose. An overwhelming majority of his Marshals urged Napoleon to fall back to the Rhine rather than fight at Leipzig, but Napoleon knew that fleeing at Leipzig would result in the abandonment of France by his German allies, whereas the Napoleon of old would have immediately tried to retreat. Napoleon chose to stand and fight, and following the loss of Leipzig was quickly left without much of an army to defend France.
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* U.S Senator Doug Jones pulled a masterful gambit during his run in the Alabama Senate race. Well aware of Roy Moore's shortcomings, with many moderates and suburbanites deeply nervous over Moore being booted off the state Supreme Court twice, Jones repeteadly hit Moore over the head as an incredible embarrassment to the state, while polishing himself as a compromiser who would not humiliate the state. This message was greatly helped by the plethora of corruption scandals involving Alabama Republicans in the prior years, and the final nail in the coffin were the allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Moore. Many moderates and suburban voters decided, that as much as they were wary of Doug Jones, Moore was too extreme.
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* In the Philippines, there is a form of robbery where BatmanGambit is at the core of its 'modus operandi'. In this case, the (AlwaysMale) mugger approaches their (AlwaysFemale) target, then lets loose a vicious amount of yellow, name-calling, and slapping upon the victim, even in full view of the public, while taking away their belongings. The whole crime rests on [[ValuesDissonance the tendency of Filipino people]] to [[ByStanderSyndrome dismiss such fights]] as [[ApatheticCitizens "just a typical bickering between couples"]], which leaves the victim completely helpless.
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* The "Highland Charge" was a shock tactic the Scottish used during the 18th century that took advantage of expectations of infantrymen at the time - a good showing of the Highland Charge would have the Scots close to 60 yards and fire their muskets, duck to the ground under the expected retaliating volley (further aided from the smoke that would have came from their guns) and drop their firearms, draw blades and targes, and charge the enemy. This was initially highly devastating even against enemies that tried to stand their ground, as there wasn't much time for early plug bayonets to be fitted to muskets once the true charge began and even after ring bayonets became standard, the Scots would still be able to easily deflect an enemy's bayonet with the targe in his left-hand and render him helpless. The British would end up defeating it by drilling their troops to expect the Scots' charge and having their bayonets deflected by training them to stab at the enemy at his right.
