The Secret War Against Sweden
"Ola Tunander's revelations in this book makes it clear that the United States and Britain ran a 'secret war' in Swedish waters to test Sweden's capability and will in the 1980s. Within a couple of years, the number of Swedes perceiving the Soviet Union as a direct threat had increased from 5-10 per cent (in 1980) to 45 per cent (in 1983). In the same period, the number of Swedes viewing the Soviets as unfriendly increased from 30 per cent to more than 80 per cent. This Anglo-American 'secret war' was a deception operation aimed at exerting political influence over Sweden. It was a risky enterprise, but, as the Swedish polls show, perhaps the most successful covert operation of the entire Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Those Russian drone sightings remind me a lot of the "Russian" submarines off the coast of Sweden in the '80s.
Hint:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-Against-Sweden-Submarine/d...
- I know i have a book with it but cannot find it, however i found that looong report about it:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2007/R377...
EDIT:
Yes i found it:
The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Ola-Tunander/dp/0714682756/ref=sr...
It's a great book.
Some Remarks on the US/UK Submarine Deception:
- Jup the guy who was probably killed by his own military because talking with the USSR is against Nato strategy [1] funny how history repeats itself [2]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-Against-Sweden-Submarine/d...
[2] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Provoked-Washington-Started-Catas...
- It's not the first time Sweden is used as the stupid Goat by the US:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-Against-Sweden-Submarine/d...
and probably
- Have you read that book?
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-Against-Sweden-Submarine/d...
- Given the region, I first thought of the Swedish submarine scare and cold war panic in the 80s. Sweden, a non NATO member which didnt want to join NATO, had repeated incursions by submarines into their waters which were attributed to the soviets. It seems that wasnt the case for most subs. Instead the likely culprits were often NATO vessels.
Ola Tunander worte a Book about the incidents, called "The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s". http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/tunander.pdf
