Download or read book Summary of Tony Geraghty s Black Ops written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-22T22:59:00Z with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 For years, the Vietnam War was the alpha and omega of Special Operations Forces, until the strategy failed and Special Forces units were relegated to obscurity for nearly two decades. #2 The Vietnam War was fought between America and Vietnam, and the American sacrificed an average of 5,800 lives every year for a decade. The Afghans were fierce fighters, but they were still unsophisticated warriors. #3 The French were defeated by the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The French were then divided into two political entities at a Geneva peace conference. Though a dividing line was drawn on the 17th parallel, it meant little in practice for months, during which time thousands of refugees and agents of various sorts moved north or south and back again. #4 In 1955, a team of Saigon Military Mission officers supported by CIA and Air Force personnel worked to build an anti-communist resistance movement in North Vietnam. They smuggled into North Vietnam 8. 5 tons of materiel, including fourteen agent radios, 300 carbines, 90,000 rounds of carbine ammunition, and fifty pistols.
Download or read book Summary of Tony Geraghty s Black Ops written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 For years, the Vietnam War was the alpha and omega of Special Operations Forces, until the strategy failed and Special Forces units were relegated to obscurity for nearly two decades. #2 The Vietnam War was fought between America and Vietnam, and the American sacrificed an average of 5,800 lives every year for a decade. The Afghans were fierce fighters, but they were still unsophisticated warriors. #3 The French were defeated by the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The French were then divided into two political entities at a Geneva peace conference. Though a dividing line was drawn on the 17th parallel, it meant little in practice for months, during which time thousands of refugees and agents of various sorts moved north or south and back again. #4 In 1955, a team of Saigon Military Mission officers supported by CIA and Air Force personnel worked to build an anticommunist resistance movement in North Vietnam. They smuggled into North Vietnam 8. 5 tons of materiel, including fourteen agent radios, 300 carbines, 90,000 rounds of carbine ammunition, and fifty pistols.
Download or read book Black Ops The Rise of Special Forces in the CIA the SAS and Mossad written by Tony Geraghty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-hitting history of special-forces operations over the past fifty years in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building. Tony Geraghty, an expert author in this field for almost thirty years, unveils the extraordinary evolution of this refined style of war-making from its roots in anti-guerrilla warfare in Ireland and Palestine, by way of the creation of the C.I.A., the S.A.S., the Green Berets, America’s Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), and many others, including Mossad. This history is more than a tale of derring-do, although James Bond-like characters stalk every page. It is a sweeping examination of Black Ops at a time when they represent the future of an open-ended global war against terrorism.
Download or read book Fighting at the Legal Boundaries written by Kenneth Watkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting at the Legal Boundaries offers a holistic approach towards the application of the various constitutive parts of international law. The author focuses on the interaction between the applicable bodies of law by exploring whether their boundaries are improperly drawn, or are being interpreted in too rigid a fashion. Emphasis is placed on the disconnect that can occur between theory and practice regarding how these legal regimes are applied and interact with one another. Through a number of case studies, Fighting at the Legal Boundaries explores how the threat posed by insurgents, terrorists, and transnational criminal gangs often occurs not only at the point where these bodies of law interact, but also in situations where there is significant overlap. In this regard, the exercise of the longstanding right of States to defend nationals, including the conduct of operations such as hostage rescue, can involve the application of human rights based law enforcement norms to counter threats transcending the conflict spectrum.
Download or read book Fighting at the Legal Boundaries written by Kenneth Watkin OMM, CD, QC and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense and conduct of inter-state conflict finds itself confronted with violent 21st Century disputes of a very different character. Military practitioners who seek to stay within the bounds of international law often find themselves applying bodies of law-IHRL, IHL, ICL-in an exclusionary fashion, and adherence to those boundaries can lead to a formal and often rigid application of the law that does not adequately address contemporary security challenges. Fighting at the Legal Boundaries offers a holistic approach towards the application of the various constitutive parts of international law. The author focuses on the interaction between the applicable bodies of law by exploring whether their boundaries are improperly drawn, or are being interpreted in too rigid a fashion. Emphasis is placed on the disconnect that can occur between theory and practice regarding how these legal regimes are applied and interact with one another. Through a number of case studies, Fighting at the Legal Boundaries explores how the threat posed by insurgents, terrorists, and transnational criminal gangs often occurs not only at the point where these bodies of law interact, but also in situations where there is significant overlap. In this regard, the exercise of the longstanding right of States to defend nationals, including the conduct of operations such as hostage rescue, can involve the application of human rights based law enforcement norms to counter threats transcending the conflict spectrum. This book has five parts: Part I sets out the security, legal, and operational challenges of contemporary conflict. Part II focuses on the interaction between the jus ad bellum, humanitarian law and human rights, including an analysis of the historical influences that shaped their application as separate bodies of law. Emphasis is placed on the influence the proper authority principle has had in the human rights based approach being favored when dealing with "criminal" non-State actors during both international and non-international armed conflict. Part III analyzes the threats of insurgency and terrorism, and the state response. This includes exploring their link to criminal activity and the phenomenon of transnational criminal organizations. Part IV addresses the conduct of operations against non-State actors that span the conflict spectrum from inter-state warfare to international law enforcement. Lastly, Part V looks at the way ahead and discusses the approaches that can be applied to address the evolving, diverse and unique security threats facing the international community.
Download or read book Eyes Ears and Daggers written by Thomas H. Henriksen and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have served as the nation's eyes, ears, and daggers, often in close cooperation but occasionally at cross-purposes throughout their histories. In this book, Thomas H. Henriksen examines the warrior-spy connection both before and after the formation of the SOF and the CIA, suggesting that their history is notable for instances of cooperating, competing, circumventing, and even cutting each other out of the action before the 9/11 terrorist attacks brought about their present close alignment. Henriksen shows how, by adopting an intelligence-driven, targeted counterstrike weapon against terrorists, the United States went from a Cold War Goliath to a more nimble force, thanks largely to the SOF and CIA contributions. But their contemporary blending, he suggests, could be just a temporary realignment and that a return to their traditional rivalry is not out of the question. By revisiting and appreciating their respective histories before partnering to combat Islamist terrorism, he provides a clearer understanding of their interaction and offers lessons for the struggle against extremist violence.
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Download or read book Black Ops The Rise of Special Forces in the CIA the SAS and Mossad written by Tony Geraghty and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-hitting history of special-forces operations over the past fifty years in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building. Tony Geraghty, an expert author in this field for almost thirty years, unveils the extraordinary evolution of this refined style of war-making from its roots in anti-guerrilla warfare in Ireland and Palestine, by way of the creation of the C.I.A., the S.A.S., the Green Berets, and America Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), and many others. Israel's Special Forces, including Mossad, are an organic part of the same coherent history, and their story is narrated here for the first time. This history is more than a tale of derring-do, although James Bond-like characters stalk every page. it is a sweeping examination of Black Ops at a time when they represent the future of an open-ended global war against terrorism.
Download or read book Killing the Enemy written by Adam Leong Kok Wey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' - the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes, miniature submarines and suicide pills disguised as coat buttons. But its activities are now also gaining attention as a forerunner to today's 'extra-legal' killings of wartime enemies in foreign territory, for example through the use of unmanned drones. Adam Leong's work evaluates the effectiveness of political assassination in wartime using four examples: Heydrich's assassination in Prague (Operation Anthropoid); the daring kidnap of Major General Kreipe in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor; the failed attempt to assassinate Rommel, known as Operation Flipper; and the American assassination of General Yamamoto.
Download or read book We Kill Because We Can written by Laurie Calhoun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact of remote-control killing in the twenty-first century. Can a drone operator conducting a targeted killing be likened to a mafia hitman? What difference, if any, is there between the Trayvon Martin case and the drone killing of a teen in Yemen? We Kill Because We Can takes a scalpel to the dark heart of Western foreign policy in order to answer these and many other troubling questions.
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Download or read book The Irish War written by Tony Geraghty and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Irish War military veteran and historian Tony Geraghty reveals the sinister patterns of action and reaction in this generations-old domestic conflict. Drawing on public and covert sources, as well as interviews with members of British Intelligence, the security forces, and the Irish Republican Army, he brings to light the disturbing inner workings of an organized terrorist group and its military opposition.
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Download or read book Force of Choice written by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies and published by Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University and by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contributors, many with practical military experience, argue that strategic planners and political leaders must reconcile the historical reality of special operations with the new circumstances in which countries like Canada must now pursue international security and stability, especially when the line between special and conventional is being redrawn. [This book] considers the historical experiences of several countries to [forecast] the future of special operations and address two crucial questions: Does Canada have a special forces? Can land, sea, and air forces incorporate elements of the special to respond to new threats?"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Soldiers of Fortune written by Tony Geraghty and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a history of mercenaries, exploring ways in which soldiers for hire have been an essential component of modern and privatized warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan.
