LoginDrugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (War and Peace Library)
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Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through al liances with drug-trafficking proxies. The result has been a staggering increase in global drug traffic. Thus, the author argues, the exercise of power by cover t means, or parapolitics, often metastasizes into deep politics - the interplay of
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release date: 4 March 2003
ISBN-10 : 0742525228 | ISBN-13: 9780742525221
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Release date: 4 March 2003
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