The Soviet Union and Its Caribbean Allies: Strategic, Maritime, and Regional Threat to the United States.

The Soviet Union's activity in the Carribean Basin, executed via its client-states of Cuba and Nicaragua, has created a serious threat to U.S. security in the region. This threat to U.S. security takes two forms. The first is the reality of a heavily militarized Cuba posing a significant anti-S...

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Main Author: Shaheen,F. F.
Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1985
Subjects:
Humanities and History
*FOREIGN POLICY
*NATIONAL SECURITY
*INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
USSR
NATO
UNITED STATES
THREATS
THESES
REGIONS
CUBA
HISTORY
MILITARY APPLICATIONS
SALARIES
MILITARY PLANNING
NICARAGUA
ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE
CARIBBEAN SEA
SLOC(Sea Lanes Of Communication)
Lanes
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA155886
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA155886
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Summary:The Soviet Union's activity in the Carribean Basin, executed via its client-states of Cuba and Nicaragua, has created a serious threat to U.S. security in the region. This threat to U.S. security takes two forms. The first is the reality of a heavily militarized Cuba posing a significant anti-SLOC potential against Caribbean sea lanes in the event of general war. Such a scenario would tie down NATO antisubmarine warfare (ASW) assets in the Caribbean, detracting from NATO's ability to wage the ASW campaign in more critical areas such as the Central and North Atlantic. The second threat is Nicaraguan and Cuban active support of leftist insurgencies in the Basin. These efforts, at the direction of the Soviet Union, pose, not a potential, but a present-day and ongoing security concern for the United States. This thesis briefly examines the historical context of Soviet involvement in the region, and then proceeds to catalog the above mentioned threats to U.S. security, and discusses their implications.

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