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Intervention in the Caribbean : the Dominican crisis of 1965 /

The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a classic example of a U.S. military operation that drew in America's hemispheric allies. Final...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Palmer, Bruce, Jr., 1913-2000
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1989.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a classic example of a U.S. military operation that drew in America's hemispheric allies. Finally, its outcome was that rare feat in the annals of diplomacy -- a peaceful political settlement of a civil war. Here for the first time is the full story of that action, as told by one of its leading participants. General Palmer was the U.S. Army's operations chief in Washington in April 1965 when the Dominic.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213).
ISBN:9780813150024
0813150027