This book analyzes U.S. pro-insurgency paramilitary operations (PMOs) or U.S. proxy warfare from the beginning of the Cold War to the present and explains why many of these operations either failed entirely to achieve their objective, or why they produced negative consequences that greatly diminished their benefits. The chapters cover important aspects of what PMOs are, the history of U.S. PMOs, how they function, the dilemmas of secrecy and accountability, the issues of control, criminal conduct, and disposal of proxies, as well as newer developments that may change PMOs in the future. The author argues that the general approach of conducting PMOs as covert operations is inherently flawed since it tends to undermine many possibilities for control over proxies in a situation where the interests of sponsors and proxies necessarily diverge on key issues.
Krishnan
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1. What Are Paramilitary Operations?2. A Short History of U.S. Paramilitary Operations3. Conducting Paramilitary Operations4. Dilemmas of Secrecy5. Accountability in Paramilitary Operations6. Critical Loss of Control7. War Crimes and Criminal Conduct8. Endgames and Outcomes9. The Disposal Problem10. New Developments
Armin Krishnan is Assistant Professor and Director of the Security Studies Program at East Carolina University, USA.