covert

A hybrid strategy involving maritime and air pressure, covert agitation and inducements, targeted strikes to degrade regime capacity, and political, legal and cyber warfare to isolate Caracas and split the officer corps is realistic.

Special forces are a branch of the military trained to carry out covert operations, often through unconventional warfare such as sabotage and diversion.

Yet the defining feature of a covert operation is that the role of the government is hidden.

“Most of the abuse I’ve experienced from white women came in a covert form,” Savannah Worley wrote in a Medium essay.

Ned Price, deputy to the US representative to the United Nations and formerly a CIA senior analyst and State Department senior adviser, said CIA covert action can take "many forms."