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This work examines the practice of air interdiction in three wars:
World War II, the Korean War, and the war in Southeast Asia or
Vietnam War. It considers eleven important interdiction campaigns,
all of them American or Anglo-American, for only the United States
and Great Britain had the resources to conduct interdiction
campaigns on a large scale in World War II. Mark proposes a
realistic objective for interdiction - preventing me, equipment and
supplies from reaching the combat area when the enemy needs them
and in the quantity he requires. Center for Air Force History,
Washington, D.C.
The United States Army Air Forces became and independent service in
1947. There had just been a long conflict between the United States
and its allies and the Soviet Union and the satellite states
subject to it. In 1949 the United States and most of the
no-Communist countries of Europe signed the North Atlantic Treaty.
The United States Air Force, which had only been a token presence
on the continent since the end of World War II, once more crossed
the Atlantic in strength. The commitment of that service to peace
and security in Europe, which continues still, has long been the
longest of its history. This manuscript attempts to give the
general reader some sense of the role the USAF has played in Europe
since the end of World War II.
This analytical work by Dr. Eduard Mark of the Center for Air Force
History examines the practice of interdiction in three wars: World
War II, the Korean war, and the war in Southeast Asia. It considers
eleven important interdiction campaigns, all of them American or
Anglo-American, for only the United States and Great Britain had
the resources to conduct interdiction campaigns on a large scale in
World War II. Dr. Mark proposes what he considers to be a realistic
objective for interdiction: preventing men, equipment, and supplies
from reaching the combat area when the enemy needs them and in the
quantity he requires. As Mark notes, there has been little
intensive scholarship on the subject of interdiction especially
when contrasted with the work done on strategic bombardment.
For the period between World War II and the full onset of the Cold
War, histories of American intelligence seem to go dark. Yet in
those years a little known clandestine organization, the Strategic
Services Unit (SSU), emerged from the remnants of wartime American
intelligence to lay the groundwork for what would become the CIA
and, in ways revealed here for the first time, conduct its own
secret warof espionage and political intrigue in postwar Europe.
Telling the full story of this early and surprisingly effective
espionage arm ofthe United States, Spying through a Glass Darkly
brings a critical chapter in the history of Cold War intelligence
out of the shadows. Constrained by inadequate staff and limited
resources, distracted by the conflicting demands of agencies of the
US government,and victimized by disinformation and double agents,
the Strategic Services Unit struggled to maintain an effective
Americanclandestine capability after the defeat of the Axis Powers.
Never viscerally anti-communist, the Strategic Services Unit was
slow torecognize the Soviet Union as a potential threat, but
gradually it began to mount operations, often in collaboration with
the intelligence services of Britain, France, Italy, Denmark, and
Sweden, to throw light into the darker corners of the Soviet
regime. Bringing to bear a wealth of archival documents,
operational records, interviews, and correspondence, David Alvarez
and Eduard Mark chronicle SSU's successes and failures in procuring
intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet
Union, a chronicle that delves deeply into the details of secret
operations against Soviet targets throughout Europe: not only in
the backstreets of the divided cities of Berlin and Vienna, but
also the cafes, hotels, offices, and salons of such cosmopolitan
capitals as Paris, Rome, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw.
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