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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"covert action"”.
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State Preferences, Viable Alternatives, and Covert Action
… and where the United States</p><p>engaged in covert action during the Cold War. This study introduces novel data on</p><p>American covert action during the cold war, as well as new data on the presence of</p><p>viable alternative (VA) governments throughout the Cold War. It describes …
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Sooner is better : covert action to prevent realignment
Why do states intervene covertly in some places and not others? This is a pressing question for theorists and policymakers because covert action is widespread, costly, and consequential. I argue that states wield it-whether by supporting political parties, arming dissidents, sponsoring coups, or …
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Covert Action: Examining the Use and Utility of the Third Option
… by examining one foreign policy tool, the use of covert action. Based on an examination of publicly available information on this complex foreign policy instrument, I conclude that covert operations often contradict and undermine American principles of democracy and international law. …
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Covert action and cyber offensive operations : revisiting traditional approaches in light of new technology
… century, especially during the Cold War, termed ‘covert action’. Focusing on the US and British experience, and using a comparative methodology, this study will compare covert action and cyber offensive operations. It will achieve this by addressing what covert action is and what forms it takes; …
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Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society
… policy and the ramifications for America’s interactions with the world through its foreign policy. It argues that Eisenhower redefined the relationship between war and society as he executed his grand strategy, further removing society from the decision for war. To avoid what he believed to be …
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British Foreign Policy: An Examination of the Relationship between British Intelligence, Democratic Peace Theory, and International Law through the Lens of Ethnic Stratification & Mass Atrocity in Southeast Asia 1965-1990
… suggests that democratic states do not engage in covert action against one another.1 Academic scholarship, however, indicates that democratic states will use covert action against an elected government if national security planners perceive there is democratic decay in its national trajectory. …
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The Central Intelligence Agency and Cuba: How the Trap of Success Led to the Bay of Pigs
<p>This research looks at how covert operations in Iran and Guatemala shaped the decision to launch the Bay of Pigs invasion, and why the United States government embarked on an operation that had little chance of success. Key areas of discussion are the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its …
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Wilderness of Mirrors: Optimizing Psychological Operations to Counter the Global Jihad
… intelligence, and more specifically deception, covert action, and psychological operations (PSYOPS). The current utilization of PSYOPS is ineffective at countering propaganda and mobilization in the Global Jihad Movement, therefore it must change. Through the change in PSYOPS and through the use …
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Mind the Gap: The Failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to Support U.S. National Interests
… of the Central Intelligence Agency, effective covert action and accurate assessments of its adversaries have proved problematic. This has manifested itself in areas such as the soviet threat during the Cold War and towards the rogue nation of Iraq. Covert activities tended to supplant U.S. …
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“Their Need Was Great”: Émigrés and Anglo-American Intelligence Operations in the Early Cold War
Covert action during the Cold War has been the subject of much historiography. This research, however, is based for the most part on primary sources, specifically on the records declassified in the United States in 2007 as a consequence of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The majority of the …
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Understanding Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Soviet Active Measures and Russian New Generation Warfare
… century's conventional battlespaces. Utilizing covert action, psychological operations, sabotage, espionage, and other unconventional tactics used by Soviet intelligence agencies, the Kremlin deploys comparable strategies for directly targeting its adversaries in the twenty-first century without …
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Understanding information communication in word of mouth behaviours
… WOM prevents the receiver from detecting this covert action. Results from this research offer new insights into how consumers use WOM communication each day. Furthermore, a number of additional gender specific insights are obtained offering even greater detail regarding how individuals choose …