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Shadow warfare : the history of America's undeclared wars / Larry Hancock ; with Stuart Wexler.
Van Pelt Library UB251.U5 H375 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hancock, Larry J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- United States.
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- Espionage, American.
- History.
- Subversive activities.
- Subversive activities--United States--History.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Secret service--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Espionage, American--History.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 608 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2014]
- Summary:
- Deniable operations are not something new. Meticulously researched. Shadow warfare explores why every single president since WWII has felt compelled to turn to secret, deniable military action at one point in time. The book traces the evolution of undeclared warfare over some seventy years, detailing operations and exploring the incredible careers of some of the most noted "shadow warriors" of the period II spans operations extending over four continents including: Covert guerrilla warfare against communist China, Cross border actions into southern China from Burma, Clandestine warfare in Tibet during two decades, Secret warfare against Cuba under three presidents, Black operations into North Vietnam, Surrogate warfare in Laos, Operation Phoenix in Vietnam and Operation Condor in South America, Surrogate warfare in the Congo and Angola, Covert action in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, Gray warfare across Southwest Asia: Africa, and the Pacific, The merging covert and conventional action m the current war on terror Book jacket.
- Contents:
- From solution to illusion
- The personality of covert action
- Evolution of a covert warfare infrastructure
- Armies of opportunity
- Fighting communist China
- deniably
- Regime change
- Shadow warriors
- Face-off in Indochina
- Covert of overt in Laos
- Against the Castro regime
- Autonomous and deniable
- Holding the line in the Congo
- Unanticipated consequences
- Congressional intervention
- Maintaining anticommunist regimes
- Targeted infrastructure warfare in southern cone
- Pushing back
- The outsiders
- Risky business
- It happens
- New enemies
- New weapons
- A turn to "gray" warfare
- Other boots on the ground
- Merging covert and conventional
- The evolving war on terror
- Benghazi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-596) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781619022447
- 1619022443
- OCLC:
- 872123661
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