"Castro’s Cold Warriors – Inside the Foreign Campaigns" Topic

… of the Cuban Army

"AMERICA WAS STILL REELING from its humiliation in Vietnam in 1976 when hawks in the administration of President Gerald Ford were pushing for the United States to enter yet another war — this one much closer to home.

According to documents recently released by the National Security Archive and reported in The New York Times, U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger urged the 38th president to order a massive bombing campaign against Cuba. The air strikes were to be followed by an assault on the island nation using American ground forces including Marines stationed at Guantanamo Bay. The proposed hostilities came amid Havana's brazen deployment of thousands of combat troops to the ongoing civil war in Angola…"
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Armand

The Cubans have served in many nations in support of Communists dogma, etc. As pointed out in the article. Regardless of what was said/planned after Vietnam, attacking Cuba would have been a needless war …

In reality the Cubans in many of these countries they deployed to. Were somewhat better than the troops of those nations, e.g. the Mid East and especially Africa. Most of the African nation troops/insurgents were not that effective. And still aren't. The Cubans didn't make much of a difference.

Agree….

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Armand

Gave the South Africans a run for their money. In what I had to say was the weirdest war to read about as an undergrad.

I thought it was the other way around … I may have to study up on this conflict again.