For the British, add sneaky (since summer 1918, anyway).
The 1918 summer offensive opened with the usual massive artillery barrage, when it ended the Germans came out or their dugouts and waited- only for the attack to come fifty miles down the line, with prepositioned tanks etc (brought up at night, with the roads covered in straw to conceal their tracks- and the straw swept up before dawn so the Germans reconaissance flights had nothing to see). We've stayed sneaky ever since- both the pre D-Day "Pas de Calais" bluff, and the GW1 "attacking straight into Kuwait" bluff were laregly British creations.
They used to say the sun never set on the British Empire. This was because God didn't trust us in the dark!
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