Disrupt and deny : spies, special forces, and the secret pursuit of British foreign policy.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction: Covert Action; British understandings of covert action; From war to peace; PART 1: Cold War; 1: False Starts: From Counter-Attack to Liberation; A reactive defensive-offensive; Heating up; Liberation; 2: Operation Valuable: Defending Greece, Detaching Albania; An attractive target; Working with Washington; Pilot schemes; Failure; Still Valuable; 3: Pinpricks: The Early Cold War; Bevin sidestepped
- Undermining the Soviets in EuropeBeyond Europe; 4: A Long Game: Exploiting Rifts Behind the Iron Curtain; Conservative caution; Restraining Washington; Exploiting divisions in Russia's backyard; PART 2: End of Empire; 5: Operation Boot: Regime Change in Iran; Subversion; Enter the CIA; Coup and counter-coup; 6: Expansion: Covert Action before Suez; Growing momentum; From Yemen to Saudi Arabia; Egypt; 7: Interdependence: Covert Action after Suez; Transatlantic cooperation; Working groups; Turning attention to Asia; 8: Decolonization and Drift: The Battle for Influence after Empire
- A new front line?Transition to independence; Cooperating with the CIA; Failure to coordinate; 9: Militarization: Secret Wars in Yemen and Indonesia; Large-scale deniable operations; Confrontation; PART 3: Age of Illusions; 10: Operation Storm and Beyond: From Latin America to Oman; Global thinking; Coups in the Gulf; Storm and beyond; 11: Troubles: Covert Action in Northern Ireland; Black propaganda; Hit squads; Collusion; 12: ContainmentThe Second Cold War; The Second Cold War; Maximizing Soviet discomfort; 13: Transition: The New Agenda; Supporting the CIA; Transition; A new agenda
- 14: Counter-Terrorism: Disrupting Threats, Managing RisksThe War on Terror; The Arab Spring and continued counter-terrorism; Conclusion: The British Way; Defensive attempts to maintain the status quo; Caution; Maximizing deniability; Policy integration; Success, failure, and impact; The present as an interruption to the past; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Conclusion; Bibliography
- Archives and primary source databases consulted (and their abbreviations used in text)Government Documents and Reports; Memoirs and First-Hand Accounts; Secondary Literature; Index