Power Pack: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republi, 1965-1966 by Yates, Lawrence A - 1988

Combat Studies Institute. Very Good. Soft cover. 1988.

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Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute, 1988. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. good. 25 cm. xi, [1], 227, [1] pages. Wraps. illustrations. Chronology of Crisis Events. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Bookplate. U.S. involvement in the Dominican crisis became a military intervention, the first undertaken in Latin America in thirty years. Nearly 24, 000 American troops were committed to the joint and, ultimately, combined operation. In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy expressed concern that Communist sponsored unconventional warfare was one of the most pervasive threats to American security and that the U.S. military establishment was inadequately prepared to counter the threat. To correct this deficiency, the White House put pressure on the services, especially the U.S. Army, to develop the doctrine and forces necessary to conduct what was variously called counterinsurgency, counterguerrilla warfare, special… Read More

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