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Set And Drift, The U.S. Naval War College
Set And Drift, The U.S. Naval War College
Naval War College Review
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Naval Option For The Caribbean: The Us Coast Guard, John C. Trainor
Naval Option For The Caribbean: The Us Coast Guard, John C. Trainor
Naval War College Review
Caribbean countries and territories have become conspicuous in the United States' discussions about areas of national interest. Cuba, of course, has been the subject of discussion for some time, but now it is not alone as an area of concern. Many of the Caribbean countries suffer from political instability, poverty, socioeconomic inequities, and local insecurity, all causing anxieties both in those countries and in our own, because these conditions could be exploited by radical elements wishing to establish C:ommunist governments in our hemisphere, The Soviet Union would, of course, be the ultimate benefactor for any such movements.
Caribbean Coast Guard: A Regional Approach, Robert F. Fenton
Caribbean Coast Guard: A Regional Approach, Robert F. Fenton
Naval War College Review
For many Americans, pre-1980 thoughts of the Caribbean Basin' were focused exclusively on tourism in an idyllic tropical paradise, While reality never matched that naive simplification, the US action in Grenada in October 1983 capped a series of events that graphically demonstrated the strategic importance of the Caribbean. Before that involvement, revolutionary upheavals in Nicaragua and Surinam; guerrilla movements in El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia; the massive immigrations of Cubans and Haitians in 1980; the debt crisis of tlte Ilasin, and the persistent drumbeat of Cuban adverturism and propaganda already had focused US policy-level attention to a region long regarded …