COVERT ACTIONS

U.S. - COVERT ACTIONS

U.S. - COVERT ACTIONS

Introduction

Covert operations are political or military activities which is secretly run and are carried out by the special forces of the government in the existence active originator is denied. They are used in situations where an open procedure does not lead to the desired objective or jeopardize the success of the measure would (Prados, 2006). Typical actors of such operations are intelligence agencies, which are often specially specialized departments, military and Special Forces. A covert operation is directed mostly against a state or a region, but may also affect targets in their own country, for example in a political crisis area.

Covert operations, which include serious violations of law or ethical principles, are under extreme secrecy performed that is under a strict need-to-know basis. Methods of a black operation, for example, murder, kidnapping, torture, disappearances be from people the staging of terrorist attacks in the country, the illegal systematic spying on citizens of their own state or illegal supporting armed resistance or terrorist groups in other countries. Covert operations are in peacetime one of the few means of bypassing the sovereignty of a foreign state directly to its internal affairs to influence. The methods used frequently violated both against the national law of the exporting and the goal of the State and against international law, which the need for secrecy can seem all the more urgent. The covert operation in some cases leads to serious diplomatic crisis between the concerned states (Prados, 2006).

Future U.S. Sponsored Covert Actions

Today, United States has the number of threats and issues of terrorism, covert actions will continue to be a valuable but a risky presidential tool for the future. Covert operations are one of the most significant controversial liabilities of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). According to the facts and analysis, there are a number of recommendations which support that the future president of United States should allow covert operations in the manner that are legally, politically and ethically suitable and acceptable to Congress and the people of America will be aware of the circumstances (Mendelsohn, 2007). The agencies that are involved in monitoring threats to the peace of the world are reporting more and more reports clearly indicate that the Pentagon will spend on military operations even more funds from the U.S. budget. Against the war on terror, with new resolutions that U.S. President Barack Obama has taken the global and on a much larger scale than it might seem. The use of covert actions will remain a controversial topic for the future presidencies to come. An unfortunate factor in the debate will be the reality that the supreme successes of U.S. in the field will never be known while its greatest failures will never be forgotten. Even though the recommendations will by no means in order to ensure the success of future covert operations, it provides a general framework in which covert actions can be done to the greatest effect while minimizing the possibility of immoral, ...