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Details the history and evolution of America's covert war activities, examining how they have been authorized and practiced, their patterns and consequences, and why presidents have turned to secret military action.
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Intelligence service, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, American Espionage, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Subversive activities, Secret service, World War, 1939-1945, Cold War, United States, Foreign relations, History, Intelligence service, united states, United states, history, military, Military HistoryPlaces
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Shadow warfare: the history of America's undeclared wars
2014, Counterpoint Press
in English
1619022443 9781619022447
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-596) and index.
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