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• catalog abstract "Publisher's description: 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 alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally developed in the late 1940s to contain communist China; it has since been used to secure control over foreign petroleum resources. The result has been a staggering increase in the global drug traffic and the mafias associated with it-a problem that will worsen until there is a change in policy. Scott argues that covert operations almost always outlast the specific purpose for which they were designed. Instead, they grow and become part of a hostile constellation of forces. The author terms this phenomenon parapolitics-the exercise of power by covert means-which tends to metastasize into deep politics-the interplay of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the control of the original policy initiators. We must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not just in military and economic superiority, Scott contends, but also in so-called soft power. We need a "soft politics" of persuasion and nonviolence, especially as America is embroiled in yet another disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq.".
• catalog contributor b12801735.
• catalog coverage "Afghanistan Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog coverage "Colombia Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog coverage "Indochina Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Afghanistan.".
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Colombia.".
• catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Indochina.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-211) and index.".
• catalog description "Publisher's description: 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 alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally developed in the late 1940s to contain communist China; it has since been used to secure control over foreign petroleum resources. The result has been a staggering increase in the global drug traffic and the mafias associated with it-a problem that will worsen until there is a change in policy. Scott argues that covert operations almost always outlast the specific purpose for which they were designed. Instead, they grow and become part of a hostile constellation of forces. The author terms this phenomenon parapolitics-the exercise of power by covert means-which tends to metastasize into deep politics-the interplay of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the control of the original policy initiators. We must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not just in military and economic superiority, Scott contends, but also in so-called soft power. We need a "soft politics" of persuasion and nonviolence, especially as America is embroiled in yet another disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Afghanistan, heroin, and oil (2002) -- 1. Drugs and oil in U.S. Asian wars : from Indochina to Afghanistan -- 2. Indochina, Colombia, and Afghanistan : emerging patterns -- 3. The origins of the drug proxy strategy : the KMT, Burma, and U.S. organized crime -- pt. 2. Colombia, cocaine, and oil (2001) -- 4. The United States and oil in Columbia -- 5. The CIA and drug traffickers in Colombia -- 6. The need to disengage from Colombia -- pt. 3. Indochina, opium and oil (from The war conspiracy, 1972) -- 7. Overview : public, private, and covert political power -- 8. CAT-Air America, 1950-1970 -- 9. Laos, 1959-1970 -- 10. Cambodia and oil, 1970 -- 11. Opium, the China lobby, and the CIA.".
• catalog extent "xix, 227 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Drugs, oil, and war.".
• catalog identifier "074252521X (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0742525228 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Drugs, oil, and war.".
• catalog isPartOf "War and peace library".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield,".
• catalog relation "Drugs, oil, and war.".
• catalog spatial "Afghanistan Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog spatial "Colombia Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog spatial "Indochina Foreign relations United States.".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Afghanistan.".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Colombia.".
• catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Indochina.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "327.1273/009/045 21".
• catalog subject "Drug control Political aspects.".
• catalog subject "Drug traffic History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Intelligence service United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "JK468.I6 S35 2003".
• catalog subject "Petroleum industry and trade Political aspects.".
• catalog subject "United States. Central Intelligence Agency.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Afghanistan, heroin, and oil (2002) -- 1. Drugs and oil in U.S. Asian wars : from Indochina to Afghanistan -- 2. Indochina, Colombia, and Afghanistan : emerging patterns -- 3. The origins of the drug proxy strategy : the KMT, Burma, and U.S. organized crime -- pt. 2. Colombia, cocaine, and oil (2001) -- 4. The United States and oil in Columbia -- 5. The CIA and drug traffickers in Colombia -- 6. The need to disengage from Colombia -- pt. 3. Indochina, opium and oil (from The war conspiracy, 1972) -- 7. Overview : public, private, and covert political power -- 8. CAT-Air America, 1950-1970 -- 9. Laos, 1959-1970 -- 10. Cambodia and oil, 1970 -- 11. Opium, the China lobby, and the CIA.".
• catalog title "Drugs, oil, and war : the United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina / Peter Dale Scott.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".