Cold Warfare II: Political Terror [Paperback]

Dr. Patrick J. Pacalo Capt. PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 24, 2008

From an early age, growing up during the Vietnam era in the Washington, D.C., metro area, the author was affected by the terrorism of the day. Friends, associates, and neighbors were impacted in one way or another. One neighbor was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, years prior to the Iran hostage crisis and 9/11/01. In this volume, Patrick J. Pacalo puts to work the skills he learned as a student of political science and history; as a Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) intern; and as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve during Desert Storm. According to CIA analysis in 1981: “without indirect Soviet assistance many terrorist groups would find their operations severely hampered.” There existed Soviet-directed terrorism and quasi-independent terrorist groups. This book represents information and analysis. The reader is free to reflect and decide if the winding down of some groups, while the Soviet state disintegrated, was coincidental.

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From the Author

Patrick Pacalo is the author of Cold Warfare II: Political Terror. The book follows his original work Cold Warfare: A Compact History. The Compact History is a one volume history of the highlights of the Cold War. Cold Warfare II covers terrorism during the Cold War. Some of the work was researched in the Government Documents section of Youngstown State University's (YSU) Maag Library. The library has a federal document depository that is rich in history.

Pacalo also did research in Washington DC. He worked at the National Archives on 27 bankers` boxes of records that the archives made available. His trip to DC coincided with the meeting of the American Cold War Veterans in near-by Arlington. Patrick is a founding member and was able to take some time out to attend part of the meeting.

A few of the prestigious libraries that purchased the first book in the multi-volume series, are:

Auburn University; National Defense University; University of Chicago; University of Kansas; National Archives Library; US Army War College; the Fairfax County Public Libraries; Murdoch University, Australia; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

From the Back Cover

From and early age, growing up during the Vietnam Era in the Washington, D.C., metro area, the author was affected by the terrorism of the day. Friends, associates, and neighbors were impacted in one way or another. One neighbor was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, years prior to the Iran hostage crisis and 9/11/01. In this volume, Patrick J. Pacalo puts to work the skills he learned as a student of political science and history; as a Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) intern; and as an Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve during Desert Storm. According to CIA analysis in 1981: "without indirect Soviet assistance many terrorist groups would find their operations severely hampered." There existed Soviet-directed terrorism and quasi-independent terrorist groups. This book represents information and analysis. The reader is free to reflect and decide if the winding down of some groups, while the Soviet state disintegrated, was coincidental.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: PublishAmerica (November 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1606723553
• ISBN-13: 978-1606723555
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,287,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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