Clandestine Lives Of Colonel David Smiley
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Author | : Clive Jones |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 1474441173 |
Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley's commitment to covert action and intelligence during the Second World War and early part of the Cold War, often among tribally based societies. With particular reference to operations in Albania, Oman and Yemen, it addresses the wider issues of accountability and control of clandestine operations.
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ISBN | : 9781474465359 |
Author | : David Smiley |
Publisher | : Sapere Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781913518851 |
The final instalment of Colonel David Smiley's fascinating autobiographical trilogy. This book fills the gaps that were left by his two previous memoirs, uncovering his service in World War Two before and after being parachuted into Albania as well his thoughts on the conflicts that he was involved in through the twentieth century. Colonel David Smiley was no ordinary soldier. Through the course of his life he saw conflict in the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. After being commissioned into the Household Cavalry in 1936 and seeing action in the Middle East, he subsequently trained and fought with the Commandos, was recruited into Churchill's Special Operations Executive, co-operated with MI6 and the SAS, and provided aid to resistance movements across the globe. Even his service within the regular army was never ordinary; he was frequently the first to be called upon by superiors to lead dangerous missions in Syria and Persia and later served in lightly-armoured dummy tanks in the Western Desert facing German Stukas and powerful Axis tanks. From Syria to Thailand, Smiley's bravery, abilities in clandestine warfare, and leadership unified the men he led and caused havoc to enemy forces. His autobiography, which covers from his entrance into the military before the Second World War to his return to Albania in 1992 after the fall of Communist rule, records a remarkable life spent fighting in regular forces as well as in cloak-and-dagger operations and demonstrates how varied conflict was during the twentieth century. "Smiley's latest book completes a trilogy of memoirs of times of war and troubled peace and provides setting for his previous books Arabian Assignment and Albanian Assignment." The RUSI Journal
Author | : Jones Clive Jones |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 1474441181 |
Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley's commitment to covert action and intelligence during the Second World War and early part of the Cold War, often among tribally based societies. With particular reference to operations in Albania, Oman and Yemen, it addresses the wider issues of accountability and control of clandestine operations.
Author | : J.E. Peterson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2024-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004697012 |
Oman's 1970 coup launched a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initially haphazard construction matured into a durable structure that continues under Sultan Haitham. This work details the early construction of the Qabusid state in the 1970s-1980s, emphasizing the interplay between personalities and the process of institutionalization. The narrative continues to the present demonstrating the resilience of the Qaboosid system.
Author | : Luca Trenta |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1399519522 |
From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of methods, from the use of poison to the delivery of sniper rifles, and from employing hitmen to simply laying the groundwork for local actors to do the deed themselves. It shows not only how policymakers decided on assassination but also the level of Presidential control over these decisions. Tracing the history of the US government's approach to assassination, the book analyses the evolution of assassination policies and, for the first time, reveals how successive administrations - through private justifications and public legitimations - ensured assassination remained an available tool.
Author | : Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748691847 |
What is intelligence - why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke creates a new, systematic model of intelligence analysis, arguing that good intelligence is based on understanding the threats that appear beyond our experience, and are therefore the most dangerous to society.
Author | : Geraint Hughes |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 333 |
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ISBN | : 3031494997 |
Author | : Dylan Huw Dylan |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474428878 |
Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America's security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers the reader a lively survey of the CIA past and present. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis. The book chronicles the evolution of the CIA, its remarkable successes, clandestine operations, and its ongoing struggle to maintain American security in an age of proliferating threats.
Author | : Martha Whitesmith |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-09-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1474466362 |
This book critiques the reliance of Western intelligence agencies on the use of a method for intelligence analysis developed by the CIA in the 1990s, the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH).