Trojan horses and other ruses de guerre

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy, 1760s, National Gallery, London

The Trojan horse at the siege of Troy is one of the best-known examples of ruse de guerre of all times, and one metaphor that has never gone out of fashion. From Homer to cyber-security and geopolitics, the Trojan horse continues to be a feature of ou…