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Secret Wars : Covert Confli...
Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions "backstage" helps control escalation dynamics, insulating leaders from domestic pressures while communicating their interest in keeping a war contained.Carson shows that covert interventions can help control escalation, but they are almost always detected by other major powers. However, the shared value of limiting war can lead adversaries to keep secret the interventions they detect, as when American leaders concealed clashes with Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Escalation concerns can also cause leaders to ignore covert interventions that have become an open secret. From Nazi Germany's role in the Spanish Civil War to American covert operations during the Vietnam War, Carson presents new insights about some of the most influential conflicts of the twentieth century.Parting the curtain on the secret side of modern war, Secret Wars provides important lessons about how rival state powers collude and compete, and the ways in which they avoid outright military confrontations
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monografia Rebiun32500246 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun32500246 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr||||||||nn|n 190523s2018 nju fo d z eng d 0-691-18424-0 10.1515/9780691184241 doi UPVA 998799100003706 CBUC 991013147709106708 DE-B1597 eng DE-B1597 rda eng n-us--- nju US-NJ Carson, Austin author Secret Wars Covert Conflict in International Politics Austin Carson Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2018] Princeton, NJ Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 2018 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) illustrations, charts, tables 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) Princeton Studies in International History and Politics 168 Previously issued in print: 2018 Includes bibliographical references and index Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Limited- War Theory of Secrecy -- 3. The Emergence of Covert Warfare -- 4. The Spanish Civil War (1936- 1939) -- 5. The Korean War (1950- 1953) -- 6. The Vietnam War (1964- 1968) -- 7. The War in Afghanistan (1979- 1986) -- 8. Conclusion -- Index Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions "backstage" helps control escalation dynamics, insulating leaders from domestic pressures while communicating their interest in keeping a war contained.Carson shows that covert interventions can help control escalation, but they are almost always detected by other major powers. However, the shared value of limiting war can lead adversaries to keep secret the interventions they detect, as when American leaders concealed clashes with Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Escalation concerns can also cause leaders to ignore covert interventions that have become an open secret. From Nazi Germany's role in the Spanish Civil War to American covert operations during the Vietnam War, Carson presents new insights about some of the most influential conflicts of the twentieth century.Parting the curtain on the secret side of modern war, Secret Wars provides important lessons about how rival state powers collude and compete, and the ways in which they avoid outright military confrontations Specialized In English 0-691-20412-8 0-691-18176-4 Princeton studies in international history and politics