How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons From the World of Secret Statecraft by Rory Cormac

Author:Rory Cormac [Cormac, Rory]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf, mobi, azw3
Tags: Political Science, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations, General, History, Modern, 21st Century, Terrorism
ISBN: 9781838955632
Google: nF1TEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B09N6129LD
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2022-06-01T18:30:00+00:00

Covertly sponsoring rebels is both hard to deny and highly controversial. There is another downside: controlling them is difficult, if not impossible. They are, after all, rebels. Groups have different motivations from the state and will probably have been waging their own attacks against the target for years before the CIA or whoever came along. They are not puppets being manoeuvred by a hidden hand. It is therefore wrong to think of a state covertly controlling or coercing rebels to do its bidding. They have their own independent action and, at best, work in partnership with the sponsoring state. Boris Johnson, as foreign secretary, was characteristically evocative yet misguided when describing the Middle East situation in 2016: ‘you’ve got the Saudis, Iran, everybody, moving in, and puppeteering and playing proxy wars’.

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