Disruption and deniable interventionism: explaining the appeal of covert action and special forces in contemporary British policy

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Disruption and deniable interventionism: explaining the appeal of covert action and special forces in contemporary British policy

The United Kingdom has long engaged in covert action. It continues to do so today. Owing to the secrecy involved, however, such activity has consistently been excluded from debates about Britain’s global role, foreign and security policy, and military planning: an important lacuna given the controve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cormac, Rory
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage 2017
Subjects:	British foreign and defence policy; covert action; intelligence; Special Forces
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34345/

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