What does D&D stand for?

denial and deception (US DoD)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

A point is made that though denial and deception is more about the limitations of intelligence collection than analysis, the savvy analyst must remain cognizant of these limitations throughout the analytical process--easier said than done.

Ivory Tower meets James Bond

Denial and deception are common place for young women with Anorexia, therefore it takes a skilled professional to diagnose Anorexia.

Eating Disorders Anorexia & Bulimia

The huge debts they've built up, which governments had encouraged, have far exceeded the capital needed to repay them: the denial and deception has stopped and the system has begun to unravel.

Needed: a new one-planet economy

We said Saddam Hussein was a master of denial and deception.

Con Tract: the theory behind neocon self-deception

That being the case, the CIA and other intelligence agencies were "faced with the daunting challenge of trying to interpret snippets of information in an environment where the regime was engaged in massive denial and deception efforts," the letter said.

Intelligence on Iraq wasn't outdated, top officials say

American ambassador to the UN John Negroponte said inspections alone could not achieve disarmament "when a country has an active programme of denial and deception as is the case with Iraq".

GIVE THEM MORE TIME; War looms as UN chief Blix warns Saddam to work ...

Saddam has perfected the game of shoot and retreat and is very skilled in the art of denial and deception," he said.

US must strike before Iraq gets nuclear weapons warns Cheney

Robert Hanyok then offers a detailed recounting of the denial and deception efforts that gained the Japanese battle fleet surprise in its attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

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