Cold Warfare: A Compact History
©2004, ©2008 By Patrick Pacalo Click here for author biography.

Synopsis of Volume I: George Washington (I realize he was not alive during the 20th century, but hang with me here), while engaging the British in North America, put the wheels of covert action into motion over 50 years before Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (does this heap blame for the Cold War on the US? I do not think so).

The importance of the Manifesto is that it put the soon to develop Soviet state (whose leaders bought into Marxism before taking power) directly opposed to the democracies of the world in the 20th century. What evolved in 1947 & 1948, some one hundred years after Marx's writing, was a CIA capable of covert paramilitary operations.

George Kennan (US State Department) stated that what was needed was not a "department of dirty tricks," but then stated that the CIA would operate in peacetime with operations including sabotage and guerilla war (the decision was not to take the Soviet line of garbage). The means for this action was National Security Council memorandum 10/2.

Cold Warfare: A Compact History is accurately documented with hundreds of footnotes. The prestigious sources used are formerly classified CIA and OSS records, presidential papers, and records from both the National Archives and the National Security Archive. The book also includes an interview with the famed releaser of the "Pentagon Papers," Daniel Ellsberg.

Publish America, 279 pages - ISBN: 1-4137-1925-2. Available through most booksellers (bricks and mortar, and Internet); or order now by clicking the Publish America secure server link above, or purchase the personally autographed two-volume set for $21.95 (50% off) below.

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Cold Warfare II: Political Terror
©2008 By Patrick Pacalo

 

Synopsis of Volume II: From an early age, growing up during the Vietnam Era in the Washington DC metro area, the author was affected by the terrorism of the day (a bit different in some ways than the terrorism of today). Friends, associates, and neighbors were impacted in one way or another (no kidding?). One neighbor was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon years prior to the Iran hostage crisis, and 9/11/01.

In this volume Patrick Pacalo, PhD put the skills learned as a student of political science and history; a Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) intern; and as an intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve during Desert Storm to work (whew! Was I busy there for a while).

According to CIA analysis in 1981 "without indirect Soviet assistance many terrorist groups would find their operations severely hampered." There existed Soviet state directed terrorism and quasi-independent terrorist groups. This book represents information and analysis (no, I am not looking for a slot on FOX News, but hey Bill, I will consider offers). The reader is free to reflect and decide if the winding down of some terrorist groups, as the Soviet state disintegrated, was coincidental.

Sources for Cold Warfare II include the National Archives, the CIA, the National Security Archive, presidential papers, and the Youngstown State University Library Federal Depository section.

Publish America, 88 pages - ISBN: 1-60672-355-3. Available through most booksellers (bricks and mortar, and Internet); or order now by clicking the Publish America secure server link above, or purchase the personally autographed two-volume set for $21.95 (50% off) below.

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Auburn University; National Defense University; University of Chicago; University of Kansas; National Archives Library; US Army War College; the Fairfax County Public Libraries; Office of Naval Intelligence; USAF Historical Studies Center in Washington, DC; The U.S. Air Force Academy; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Murdoch University, Australia; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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Cold Warfare: A Compact History - table of contents

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Cold Warfare II: Political Terror - table of contents

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"If you study history long enough you will see it change."
--Patrick Pacalo

"Analyze don't memorize."
--Patrick Pacalo

"The truth is my addiction, stranger still than fiction...."
--Justin Hayward, No More Lies, The Moody Blues

"If it be of importance and of use to us to know the 
principles of the element we breathe, surely it is not of 
much less importance nor of much less use to comprehend 
the principles, and endeavour at the improvement of those 
laws, by which alone we breathe it in security."
--Jeremy Bentham, A Fragment on Government

"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the power
of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever 
the form of government, a real despotism.
--George Washington, Farewell Address

"I am only one, but still I am one. 
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
--Edward Everett Hale

Feel free to contact Dr. Pacalo at:
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Founding Member of the American Cold War Veterans
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Have a great day! PJP