Britain's Secret Wars: HOW and WHY the United Kingdom Sponsors Conflict around the World

Quoting the evidence of Liam Fox, Britain's former Defence Secretary and current Brexit trade minister,1 to the House of Commons defence committee in February 2012, Coles writes, "Secret wars are waged for the financial benefit of sectional interests and result in widespread crime against humanity, including ethnic cleansing, torture and assassination." The theoretical framework of Coles' analysis is a rather straightjacketed and perhaps outmoded understanding of Free Trade theory, predicated on Chatham House's 1997 book on British Foreign Policy, which informed the Blair government's Strategic Defence Review of 1998. According to Coles, British police have helped train RAB teams since 2007, around the time that UK intelligence agencies began seeking closer counter terrorism cooperation with the RAB and Bangladesh intelligence agencies. Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the White House began running an "information war" through a host of shadowy counter-propaganda units and organizations, such as the International Information Centre, the Pentagon's 1,200-strong Psychological Operations group and the White House's Counter Terrorism Information Strategy Policy Coordinating Committee.