Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the
first examination of the Truman Administration's decision to employ
covert operations in the Cold War.
Although covert operations were an integral part of America's
arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of
these operations were ill conceived, unrealistic and ultimately
doomed to failure. In this volume, the author looks at three
central questions: Why were these types of operations adopted? Why
were they conducted in such a haphazard manner? And, why, once it
became clear that they were not working, did the administration
fail to abandon them?
The book argues that the Truman Administration was unable to
reconcile policy, strategy and operations successfully, and to
agree on a consistent course of action for waging the Cold War.
This ensured that they wasted time and effort, money and manpower
on covert operations designed to challenge Soviet hegemony, which
had little or no real chance of success.
US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy will be of great
interest to students of US foreign policy, Cold War history,
intelligence and international history in general.
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