Plausible deniability

Gertrude. Did she aggroup with Roman Emperor to murder the king? is that this a love story? Did she “Lady Macbeth” that shit and set the entire unhappy plot in motion? Is she oblivious? Is she numb from grief and trauma? Is she maintaining plausible deniability to make sure her own survival and perhaps discount for her son’s life? Instigator, victim, clever survivor–the text leaves space for all of those prospects, however if you’re swing on Hamlet, you have got to make a decision. you have got to

US: Overextended in the Game of Plausible Deniability As I previously stated in the “U.S. Foreign Policy” section of my paper, the U.S. was spread across the globe in several conflicts. The U.S. had forces in Haiti, Somalia, the Balkans, and the middle East, so when the bloodshed began in Rwanda, the U.S. was not eager to extend it resources to another battle. John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights stated, “Bosnia was in one of its real crisis modes. The Europeans didn’t want

ignore intelligence warnings based on several motives. These motives range from cognitive biases and mindsets that create unrealistic expectation of intelligence and non-acknowledgement of relevant intelligence, to plausible deniability, and the creation of opacity. Both plausible deniability and opacity are significant motivations, as it takes a conscious action to ignore intelligence warnings, while mindsets are an unconscious motivation. However, mindsets and cognitive biases play a more significant

activity performed by U.S. government entities with the intent to influence another nations political, economic or military conditions, while the U.S. government role will not be known or acknowledged publicly. Thus, providing the United States plausible deniability is crucial to any covert action carried out by the U.S. government. However, as one can tell by the provided covert action definition, there are various forms of covert actions. This essay will discuss the various forms of covert action and

Then after a series of many miscalculations the invasion was a complete failure. This failure then served to strengthen Fidel Castro’s rise to more power and the Cuban ties with the Soviet Union. In the end Kennedy decided that plausible deniability would be insupportable and claimed full responsibility for the decision to invade Cuba: “There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan... I am the responsible officer of the government.” (Kornbluh 3) In 1961

Kennedy learned various lessons from Cuba and Berlin such as: looking for diplomatic solutions, being skeptical of his advisors, and to not act without plausible deniability. Kennedy would carry over those lessons for the rest of his term as President. Had Kennedy remained President from 1964-1968, the lessons acquired from Cuba and Berlin would have prevented an escalation in Vietnam. Kennedy viewed getting involved in Vietnam as a disruption to his foreign policy goals. One of Kennedy’s primary

It’s been three weeks since she first spoke to Violet and offered her help. Hell if I know what’s she’s been doing on that front all this time. She’s been quiet on the matter, so quiet, I almost forgot about the whole damn thing—until now. “You telling me you found someone to handle a new identity for that woman?” “You were right Kane. It’s not club business so I handled it on my own.” She puts the phone down and sits on the bed tying her shoes. “You are club business babe. Remember that.”

The Cold War started soon after the end of World War II, when allying countries realized that their ideas and beliefs did not coincide with the others, making it difficult to ensure world peace and making it necessary to alter principles and morals in order to come to agreements in favor of international asylum. In war, an enemy 's enemy is a friend, which is exactly why the United States and the Soviet Union allied during World War II to defeat Nazi Germany, but once the war had ended, the war allies

maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Post-Watergate_Intelligence_Investigations) One of the risks that you run when conducting cover actions is the blowback that will come as a result of failed operations. “Central to the US concept of covert action is plausible deniability” (Lowenthal, 2011), if the blowback happens, that will have major consequence in US’s foreign policy. Other concerns are that covert actions usually have a short-term success, and they are not compatible with American values. Counter

become a proxy military. (Clark, 2007) The ability to affect the terror groups and criminal elements with covert actions gives the ability to affect these groups’ actions without having to use large scale military objectives and maintain the plausible deniability in the instance where the operations fail. (Clark, 2007) The need for foreign policy remains, but in certain cases having the ability to use covert actions bridges the gap. If an enemy cannot be reasoned with or a rogue nation decides to place