- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1. US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces
- 2. Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: "Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government"
- 3. Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors
- 4. Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict, and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft
- 5. Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes
- 6. The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare, and the Global Projection of Force
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Index