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This text presents findings from a contemporary archaeology project that has been exploring the October Crisis (1962) and its material and immaterial remains in Cuba since 2005. The project is a cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and Cuban archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, and its primary aim is to complement the dominant narrative of the crisis with material and immaterial remains and memories in a way that approaches and explains the event "from below". The current text focuses on the US Marston mats that can be found at a number of locations in farmsteads and villages surrounding the former missile sites in the Los Palacios and San Cristóbal areas, as well as on a photo of a Russian girl that was a gift from a Russian soldier to a Cuban peasant during the crisis. These objects present the reader with new material and human insights concerning the crisis that until now have been more or less concealed and unknown, contributing new complementary dimensions to the understanding of the October Crisis while also challenging the stereotypes constructing the dominant narrative.

Emphasis on the position and influence of the Soviet military.

This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU have actor capability in this policy sphere or will it get it in the future? The reason this is so important for our project is that only if the Union is regarded by the two other actors, and regards itself, as an actor in security policy does the strategic triangle really exists. Consequently, this book has a strong focus upon the development of the actor capability of the Union. In the case of the United States, it examines to what extent the concept of the strategic triangle has significance under each of five grand strategies that serve as alternative visions of the superpower's role in the world.

We are living amidst the fallout of the most controversial conflict of our times. This book is a tough examination of how and why it was fought and of its continuing effects. This major new work contains analysis of the Iraq War from several different academic, as well as military perspectives. Its emphasis is on the links between US foreign policy, US strategy and the US conduct of war and it also covers Iraqi grand strategies, the consequences of the War for transatlantic relations, and includes a chapter on the International Law dimension. In scrutinzing the war and the behaviour of.

This book presents aspects of the Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford s administration (August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977), and the oscillations between carrot and stick that was its hallmark. The book s Cuban perspective complements the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the mid-1970s

Part 1. Johnson and the hostile policy towards Cuba -- The perspective of the Johnson Administration -- Revision of the "Integrated Covert Action Program" -- Part 2. Tensions and crises in 1964 -- The so-called "Water Crisis" -- The genesis of a new crisis -- The Crisis of May 1964 -- Part 3. The diplomatic isolation of Cuba in the hemisphere -- U.S. preparatory actions : The "Venezuelan Resolutions" -- The U.S. National Security Council and the action of the OAS -- The agreements of the IX Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs -- Cuba responds to the U.S. conspiracy -- Part 4. The economic war -- The difficulties to strengthen the dirty war -- The predominance of economic warfare -- The U.S. immigration policy toward Cuba -- Part 5. The defeat of the "Dirty War" -- The liquidation of the armed bands -- The defeat of the internal counterrevolution -- The failure of the "Integrated Covert Action Program" -- Part 6. Passive containment -- Johnson and the counterinsurgency containment (1964-1968) -- From "Dirty War" to passive containment (1966-1968) -- The Cuban counterrevolution abroad.

"This book examines the Cuba policy adopted by the Richard M. Nixon administration, 1969-1974. Based in U.S. and Cuban governmental, as well as other, sources the book studies the rupture where the policies of "passive containment" and "dirty war" were blended. Since the conditions for a violent policy had changed a continuance of the economic and psychological warfare came to be the central one. The book's Cuban perspective is unique and it enriches the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. It is of interest for everyone interested in the issue, and especially for students and researchers within the disciplines of History and Political Science"--

Part I: Kennedy and the Anti-Cuban Policy After the October Crisis -- Introduction to Part I -- Influential Factors of the U.S. Policy Towards Cuba in 1963 -- The New Governing Body for Anti-Cuban Subversion -- Proposals from the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs -- Soviet Troops in Cuba and the Political Debate in the U.S. -- "Uncontrolled" Terrorist Acts of the Counterrevolution -- Part II: The "Multiple Path" Policy -- Introduction to Part II -- The Internal Counterrevolutionary "Offensive" in the Beginning of 1963 -- The Standing Group and the Political Alternatives -- The Integrated Covert Action Program -- Operations and "Autonomous" Groups -- Part III: The Cuban-Soviet Dispute and the Reinforcement of the Cuban Defense -- Introduction to Part III -- The Cuban-Soviet Dispute and the First Visit of Fidel Castro to the Soviet Union -- Military Reinforcement of the FAR Between 1963 and 1964 -- The Confrontation with the Internal Counterrevolution -- The Action Against the Internal Counterrevolution and Its Groups -- Part IV: The Ambivalence of the "Multiple Path" Policy -- Introduction to Part IV -- The Negotiations of Lawyer James B. Donovan and the Ambivalent Policy Towards Cuba -- Information Classification: General -- Attempts to Approach the Cuban Government -- Appendix: Chronology of U.S.-Cuba Relations, 1963.

Half a century ago – in October 1962 – the world was on the threshold to the unthinkable: a full-scale nuclear war between the USA and the Soviet Union. The focus of the conflict was a number of Soviet launching sites for medium-range missiles situated in the Cuban countryside. Today, at first glance it is difficult to discover traces at these sites that testify to their important role in twentieth-century history. A closer look, however, reveals not only material remains but also an extensive, peaceful reuse of elements from the former military installations. This photo-essay presents some of the material evidence found during archaeological fieldwork at the missile site at Santa Cruz de los Pinos, also known as San Cristobal 3, situated c. 100 kilometres west of Havana.