"U.S. Made Plans To Attack Cuba In 1976" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Oct 2014 10:10 p.m. PST |
"Nearly 40 years ago, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger mapped out secret contingency plans to launch airstrikes against Havana and "smash Cuba," newly disclosed government documents show. Mr. Kissinger was so irked by Cuba's military incursion into Angola that in 1976 he convened a top-secret group of senior officials to work out possible retaliatory measures in case Cuba deployed forces to other African nations, according to documents declassified by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library at the request of the National Security Archive, a research group. The officials outlined plans to strike ports and military installations in Cuba and to send Marine battalions to the United States Navy base at Guantánamo Bay to "clobber" the Cubans, as Mr. Kissinger put it, according to the records. Mr. Kissinger, the documents show, worried that the United States would look weak if it did not stand up to a country of just eight million people…"
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Chortle  | 01 Oct 2014 10:18 p.m. PST |
The US made plans to invade Canada. Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan Red was a war plan created by the United States Army and Navy in the late 1920s and early 1930s to estimate the requirements for a hypothetical war with Great Britain (the "Red" forces). War Plan Red discussed the potential for fighting a war with Britain and its Empire and outlined those steps necessary to defend the Atlantic coast against any attempted mainland invasion of the United States. It further discussed fighting a two-front war with both Japan and Britain simultaneously (as envisioned in War Plan Red-Orange). War Plan Red was not operationalized and did not have presidential or Congressional approval. Only the Congress can declare war, and in this period of U.S. history, it made no war plans. President Herbert Hoover was known as a pacifist link That would have taken care of those smug Canadians, with their socialised medicine! |
| VonTed | 02 Oct 2014 5:44 a.m. PST |
The US has plans to invade EVERY country ;-) Can't be too careful. |
| Tango01 | 02 Oct 2014 10:41 a.m. PST |
LOL! (smile) Amicalement
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| Lion in the Stars | 02 Oct 2014 11:12 a.m. PST |
Agree with VonTed. The US makes plans for pretty much every nation on earth, and updates them every so often. Gotta give all those Pentagon staffers something to do! |
 Legion 4  | 02 Oct 2014 2:24 p.m. PST |
Yep … the US has contingency OPLANs for all kinds of situations and invading other countries or vis versa … Prior Planning Prevents P Poor Performance … |
| tuscaloosa | 02 Oct 2014 5:44 p.m. PST |
"Plans are nothing, planning is everything" – Eisenhower. |
| John the OFM | 03 Oct 2014 6:08 p.m. PST |
What difference does it make if the War Department has plans drawn up? The politicians will just change them anyway, |
| Legion 4 | 04 Oct 2014 6:55 a.m. PST |
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