The strategy of tension is most closely identified with the Years of Lead in Italy from 1968–1982, wherein both far-left Marxist groups, far-right neo-fascist  groups, and state  agencies performed bombings, kidnappings, arsons, and murders.Campani, Giovanna. Neo-fascism from the Twentieth Century to the Third Millennium: The Case of Italy . From 'The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and 'Othering' Some historians and activists have accused NATO of allowing and sanctioning such terrorism, through projects such as Operation Gladio, although this is hotly disputed by the intelligence agencies involved and other historians.Peer Henrik Hansen, "Review of NATO's Secret Armies," Journal of Intelligence History, Summer 2005. Web Archive - archived website of August 26, 2007Philip HJ Davies, "Review of NATO's Secret Armies," The Journal of Strategic Studies, December 2005, 1064-1068. Other cases where writers have alleged a strategy of tension include the deep state in Turkey from the 1970s–1990s ("Ergenekon"),Iran-Turkey Relations, 1979-2011: Conceptualising the Dynamics of Politics, Religion and Security in Middle-Power States the war veterans and ZANU–PF in Zimbabwe which coordinated the farm invasions of 2000,Carver, R., 2000. Zimbabwe, a Strategy of Tension. UNHCR. the DRS security agency in Algeria from 1991 to URL URL and the State Security Service (Belgium) during the 1982-1986 Belgian terrorist crisis.
The strategy of tension is most closely identified with the Years of Lead in Italy from 1968–1982, wherein both far-left Marxist and far-right neo-fascist extra-parliamentary groups, and state intelligence agencies performed bombings, kidnappings, arsons, and murders.Campani, Giovanna. Neo-fascism from the Twentieth Century to the Third Millennium: The Case of Italy . From 'The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and 'Othering' Some historians and activists have accused NATO of allowing and sanctioning such terrorism, through projects such as Operation Gladio, although this is hotly disputed by the intelligence agencies involved and other historians.Peer Henrik Hansen, "Review of NATO's Secret Armies," Journal of Intelligence History, Summer 2005. Web Archive - archived website of August 26, 2007Philip HJ Davies, "Review of NATO's Secret Armies," The Journal of Strategic Studies, December 2005, 1064-1068. Other cases where writers have alleged a strategy of tension include the deep state in Turkey from the 1970s–1990s ("Ergenekon"),Iran-Turkey Relations, 1979-2011: Conceptualising the Dynamics of Politics, Religion and Security in Middle-Power States the war veterans and ZANU–PF in Zimbabwe which coordinated the farm invasions of 2000,Carver, R., 2000. Zimbabwe, a Strategy of Tension. UNHCR. the DRS security agency in Algeria from 1991 to URL URL and the State Security Service (Belgium) during the 1982-1986 Belgian terrorist crisis.
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