Black Ops

Tony Geraghty

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781605982892
• eBook ISBN: 9781605987613
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The President’s Dilemma
• Chapter 2: Delta, Desert One, and “The Activity”
• Chapter 3: Blood, Oil, and Dollars
• Chapter 4: Cloak-and-Dagger Dons the Green Beret
• Chapter 5: Plausibly Deniable (And Other Ways Into Trouble)
• Chapter 6: Joseph’s Coat of Many Disruptive Patterns
• Chapter 7: Big Boys’ Games, Big Boys’ Rules
• Epilogue: A Nimble, Precise Strategy
• Endnotes
• Copyright