Cuban Missile Crisis 4

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U.S.
to remove Castro from office. We armed and trained about 2000 Cuban exiles for this job. The hope was that a
general uprising would begin, and Castro would be removed from office by his own people and not by any United
States personnel. What cost the success of the mission was that the U.S. neglected to provide air cover for the
troops. Of the 2000 troops, 300 were killed and the rest were taken prisoner. Evidently, Kennedy did not want
another Bay of Pigs, so he elected to try a naval!
blockade. He must have made the right choice, because we are still here today.
An advantage that the U.S.S.R. had if we had not found the missile bases in time, would have been the first strike
capability. This does not necessarily mean the ability to strike first, needless to say, any country can do that; It
means the ability to strike first and disarm the opponent at the same time. If the U.S.S.R. had active nuclear missile
bases in Cuba, many Americans feared that the ...

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Understanding the Arms Race, sees the Soviets as a people
who tried every option possible to get every advantage that they could. Khrushchev believed that putting nuclear
missiles in Cuba was the most expedient way to close the
missile gap with the United States. In Smoke's opinion, they were willing to risk WW III in order to obtain first
strike capability. As he says, the plan
almost worked, but a U.S. U2 spy plane discovered the secret bases on Cuba just before they were finished (44). He
states that Kennedy's first choice of action was to let the Air Force use conventional weapons to destroy the bases.
Kennedy quickly and wisely, in Smoke's opinion and my own, decided ...

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