Bay of Pigs 53rd anniversary

[DoCt SPARTAN]

The US invasion of The Bay of Pigs, Cuba was on April 17-20th, 1961.....
The US hoped to overthrow the Castro Government.
-Good articles
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/betrayal-at-the-bay-of-pigs-a-look-back-53-years-later-4/

http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/historyofthecaribbean/a/09bayofpigs.htm

[RedWorker]

Such actions by the USA usually resulted not in that "democracy" they so often talk about, but in the implementation of capitalist dictatorships, for example Pinochet's.

I'm not allowed to post links because I have too few posts, but the article "Covert United States foreign regime change actions" in Wikipedia has a list of coup d'etats by the United States.

[Skyhilist]

This wasn't even strategically smart for the US, it was just some dumb groupthink. Oh well, glad it didn't work.

[erupt]

Clusterfuck, anyone?

[SensibleLuxemburgist]

You simply cannot expect 1,500 lightly armed Cuban exiles to overthrow government which at the time was backed by 20,000 Cuban soldiers, 200,000 Cuban militiamen, and 9,000 armed police all of which were lightly to heavily armed.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

[erupt]

You simply cannot expect 1,500 lightly armed Cuban exiles to overthrow government which at the time was backed by 20,000 Cuban soldiers, 200,000 Cuban militiamen, and 9,000 armed police all of which were lightly to heavily armed.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

Also, tactically, the only air support, and air-superiority was obviously held by the U.S. and is key to winning modern mechanized warfare, were WWII-era planes, and only a few of those were authorized at that.

The invasion was doomed to failure before any exile ever landed at Playa Girón.