Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year caught almost everyone off guard. The Russian military disguised its actions, and denied them - but those “little green men” who popped up in the Black Sea peninsula were a textbook case of the Russian practice of military deception - or maskirovka.
“How Russia outfoxes its enemies”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31020283
You are preaching to the choir, FRiend.