Strategic Decision Making in the Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Americans had surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons and now they would learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointing at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine” (Spartacus...
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So it is clear that not only did the Soviets want to level the playing field in terms of strategic military location, but also to protect the ideals of a Socialist country. The United States could not allow this situation to come about under any circumstances, so their main objective was to have the Soviet missiles removed from Cuba...
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