Secret wars : covert conflict in international politics /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carson, Austin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A limited-war theory of secrecy
  • The emergence of covert warfare
  • The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
  • The Korean War (1950-1953)
  • The Vietnam War (1964-1968)
  • The war in Afghanistan (1979-1986)
  • Conclusion.

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