Shadow warfare
Subtitle: the history of America's undeclared wars
By: Larry Hancock ; with Stuart Wexler
Contributors: Wexler, Stuart
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781619022447
Subjects: 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
Other titles: History of America's undeclared wars; America's undeclared wars
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-596) and index.
Table of contents: title: From solution to illusion; title: The personality of covert action; title: Evolution of a covert warfare infrastructure; title: Armies of opportunity; title: Fighting communist China...deniably; title: Regime change; title: Shadow warriors; title: Face-off in Indochina; title: Covert of overt in Laos; title: Against the Castro regime; title: Autonomous and deniable; title: Holding the line in the Congo; title: Unanticipated consequences; title: Congressional intervention; title: Maintaining anticommunist regimes; title: Targeted infrastructure warfare in southern cone; title: Pushing back; title: The outsiders; title: Risky business; title: It happens; title: New enemies; title: New weapons; title: A turn to "gray" warfare; title: Other boots on the ground; title: Merging covert and conventional; title: The evolving war on terror; title: Benghazi.