TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hancock,Larry J.
AU  - Wexler,Stuart
TI  - Shadow warfare: the history of America's undeclared wars 
SN  - 9781619022447
AV  - E745 .H36 2014
U1  - 355.00973/0904 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berkeley, California
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Special operations (Military science)
KW  - Subversive activities
KW  - Espionage
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - fast
KW  - History, Military
KW  - covert ops
KW  - covert operations
KW  - Military history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 to overt in Laos -- Against the Castro regime -- Autonomous and deniable -- Holding the line in Congo -- Unanticipated consequences -- Congressional intervention -- Maintaining anticommunist regimes -- Targeted infrastructure warfare -- 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 traditional -- The evolving War on Terror -- Epilogue: Benghazi
N2  - 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
ER  -