Western Hemisphere

Stability ops in the Western Hemisphere

August 10, 2011

The United States Army’s Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) published earlier this year a newsletter with a collection of articles focused on stability operations in the Western Hemisphere—specifically in Central and South America. These articles also present observations, insights, and lessons from the United States Southern Command area of responsibility. The countries in Central and [...]

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Key Strategic Issues

July 19, 2011

The U.S. Army War College has published its annual Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL) for 2011. This list is published with the “purpose of making students and other researchers aware of strategic topics that are, or should be, of special importance to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Army.” Cuba is listed under Section VII. Evolving [...]

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2010 Key Strategic Issues

August 12, 2010

The U.S. Army War College‘s Strategic Studies Institute released its 2010 Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL) in early July. The list encompasses strategic “items that senior Army and Department of Defense leaders should consider in providing military advice and formulating military strategy.” Section VII under Regional Strategic Issues of KSIL focuses on the “Evolving Regional [...]

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A security risk

July 27, 2010

Jerry Bremer, CEO of Criminal Justice International Associates via Mexidata.com asks whether Cuba continues to pose a security risk to anyone in the Western Hemisphere: Cuba’s Interior Ministry reportedly consists of approximately 20,000 officials assigned to their security and intelligence apparatus, along with an estimated 50,000 Cuban nationals in various official missions in Venezuela. Castro’s [...]

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Cuba’s designs on Latin America

May 24, 2010

Jerry Bremer, C.E.O. of Criminal Justice International Associates (a global risk mitigation firm headquartered in Miami, Florida) asks in his piece, “Cuba’s Agenda in Latin America Remains Clearly Nebulous,” via Mexidata.info,  whether Cuba is a conventional military threat to anyone, which perhaps they are not, however. In the intelligence sphere, especially in Latin America, they [...]

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Number of political prisoners drop, but…

January 19, 2010

Cuba ended 2009 with slightly fewer political prisoners but continues to have the worst human rights in the Western Hemisphere with no improvement in sight, said the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation. There were 201 dissidents behind bars, down from 208 at mid-year, but CCHRNR charged that the Cuban government had stepped [...]

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