Disrupt and Deny
Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 May 2018
- ISBN 9780198784593
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 237x161x36 mm
- Weight 764 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The untold story of Britain's covert military and intelligence operations since the end of World War II, and its secret scheming against enemies, as well as friends.
MoreLong description:
British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on officials working behind the Iron Curtain, tried to foment revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly funnelled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. MI6 has launched cultural and economic warfare against Iceland and Czechoslovakia. It has tried to instigate coups in Congo, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged elections as colonies moved to independence. Britain has fought secret wars in Yemen, Indonesia, and Oman -- and discreetly used Special Forces to eliminate enemies from colonial Malaya to Libya during the Arab Spring.
This is covert action: a vital, though controversial, tool of statecraft and perhaps the most sensitive of all government activity. If used wisely, it can play an important role in pursuing national interests in a dangerous world. If used poorly, it can cause political scandal -- or worse.
In Disrupt and Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true story of Britain's secret scheming against its enemies, as well as its friends; of intrigue and manoeuvring within the darkest corridors of Whitehall, where officials fought to maintain control of this most sensitive and seductive work; and, above all, of Britain's attempt to use smoke and mirrors to mask decline. He reveals hitherto secret operations, the slush funds that paid for them, and the battles in Whitehall that shaped them.
Revelatory and meticulously researched. Rory Cormac moves in the forensic footsteps of Peter Hennessy, patiently sleuthing his way through forgotten archives and private papers, finding disturbing documents that Whitehall civil servants hoped had long been buried. Half a century after we began to learn about SOE and Bletchley Park, there are still surprises.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Covert Action
Part I - Cold War
False Starts: From Counter Attack to Liberation
Operation Valuable: Defending Greece; Detaching Albania
Pinpricks: The Early Cold War
A Long Game: Exploiting Rifts Behind the Iron Curtain
Part II - End of Empire
Operations Boot: Regime Change in Iran
Expansion: Covert Action Before Suez
Interdependence: Covert Action After Suez
Decolonisation and Drift: The Battle for Influence after Empire
Militarisation: Secret Wars in Yemen and Indonesia
Part III - Age of Illusions
Operation Storm and Beyond: From Latin America to Oman
Troubles: Covert Action in Northern Ireland
Containment: The Second Cold War
Transition: The New Agenda
Counter-Terrorism: Disrupting Threats; Managing Risk
Conclusion: The British Way
Bibliography
Index
