Blog 3

After reading chapters 3-4 in The Cold War and trying to find associations that pertain to society today, I found it quit interesting when the author started talking about the CIA. He notes that during this time, covert operations started becoming extremely more popular for a number of reasons. One of them was for the simple fact that the government could deny something is necessary. This got me thinking about the movie Charlie Wilson’s War and how the CIA was used in this movie to help supply the Middle East with weapons to help fight to Soviets. Covert operations pretty much started back then, but now in society today, covert operations are pretty much commonplace in the government. Not only in the US, but in every other dominant country, covert operations are practiced and the consensus is that it is necessary. Ho2 did it become this way? I guess it just gradually became more and more accepted until it was part of the doxa.