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Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carson, Austin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
Temas:
World politics.
International relations.
Official secrets.
Politique mondiale.
Relations internationales.
Secrets d'État.
international relations.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Diplomatic relations
War
Official secrets
International relations
Intervention (International law)
World politics
United States > Foreign relations.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
United States
Afghanistan.
American intelligence.
American weapons.
Cold War.
Condor Legion.
German intervention.
Great War.
Iranian covert intervention.
Iraq occupation.
Korean War.
Lyndon Johnson.
Non-Intervention Committee.
Richard Nixon.
Soviet cross-border.
Spain.
Spanish Civil War.
Stinger missile system.
U.S. aid program.
U.S. military activity.
Vietnam War.
World War I.
air supremacy.
air-to-air combat.
airpower.
civil wars.
collusion.
conflict escalation.
conflicts.
counterinsurgency.
covert intervention.
covert military intervention.
covert operations.
covertness.
cyberconflict.
cyberwarfare.
direct combat.
direct communication.
domestic opposition.
drones.
escalation control.
escalation dangers.
escalation dynamics.
escalation potential.
escalation process.
foreign combat participation.
foreign wars.
government secrets.
governments.
large-scale conflict.
limited war.
limited-war dynamics.
limited-war framework.
limiting war.
military confrontation.
military force.
military intervention.
miscommunication.
modern war.
official non-acknowledgement.
political constraints.
post-Cold War conflict.
rival powers.
secrecy.
social media.
state powers.
state secrecy.
terrorism.
violence.
volunteer intervention.
war escalation.
weaponry.
weapons supply program.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions "backstage" helps control escalation dynamics, insulating leaders from domestic pressures while communicating their interest in keeping a war contained. Carson shows that covert interventions can help control escalation, but they are almost always detected by other major powers. However, the shared value of limiting war can lead adversaries to keep secret the interventions they detect, as when American leaders concealed clashes with Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Escalation concerns can also cause leaders to ignore covert interventions that have become an open secret. From Nazi Germany's role in the Spanish Civil War to American covert operations during the Vietnam War, Carson presents new insights about some of the most influential conflicts of the twentieth century. Parting the curtain on the secret side of modern war, Secret Wars provides important lessons about how rival state powers collude and compete, and the ways in which they avoid outright military confrontations
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 325 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780691184241
0691184240

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