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US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy - Truman, Secret Warfare and the CIA, 1945-53 (Paperback)
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US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy - Truman, Secret Warfare and the CIA, 1945-53 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Intelligence
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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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