عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
JK468.I6 H365 2014
JK468
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I6
H365
2014
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1619022443
(Number (ISBN
9781619022447
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Shadow warfare :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the history of America's undeclared wars /
First Statement of Responsibility
Larry Hancock ; with Stuart Wexler
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 608 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-596) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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 the Congo -- Unanticipated consequences -- Congressional intervention -- Maintaining anticommunist regimes -- Targeted infrastructure warfare in the 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 -- Epilogue: Benghazi
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
America's undeclared wars
Parallel Title
History of America's undeclared wars
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cold War
Espionage, American-- History
Intelligence service-- United States
Subversive activities-- United States-- History
Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Secret service-- United States
World War, 1939-1945-- Secret service-- United States
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Foreign relations
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
355
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3/4320973
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
JK468
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I6
Class number
UB251
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U5
Book number
H365
2014
Book number
H375
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Hancock, Larry J.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Wexler, Stuart
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20140609121008.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
