Cuban Missile Crisis

First Cuban-born female officer

November 13, 2011

Lt. Colonel Mercedes O. Cubria was the first Cuban-born female officer in the U.S. Army. According to the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Museum at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona: Lt. Col. Cubria was born in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 1903. Emigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13, she joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1943, soon earning [...]

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Lying in international politics

January 16, 2011

International Relations scholar John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago has written a new book about lying between nations. Mearsheimer (one of the foremost thinkers of the realist school in IR) terms strategic cover-up as the type of lie a government may tell so it can pursue a wise but unpopular policy. For example: After the Cuban [...]

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Our Little Castro in Belarus

July 30, 2010

Konstantin Sonin, a Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow, penned an article in the Moscow Times where he compares the economic and political consequences of Moscow’s support of local “tsars:” Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko. The political life of Cuban leader Fidel Castro goes on and on, thwarting all attempts to [...]

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