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Observing Our Hermanos de Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950-1964

by Robert O. Kirkland. 180 pgs.

Contributors:

   Robert O. Kirkland

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  2003

Subjects:

Latin America--History--1948-1980, United States--Military Relations--Latin America, Latin America--Military Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, Civil-Military Relations--Latin America--History--20th Century

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	1
	Chapter One The Attaché Corps in the Pre-Cold War Era, 1888-1945	13
	Chapter Two The Attachés, Their Duties, Responsibilities, Education, Training, and Attitudes, 1945-1964	27
	Chapter Three U. S. Attachés, Guatemala, and the Overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz, 1950-1954	55
	Chapter Four U. S. Attachés and the Cuban Revolution, 1952-1958	77
	Chapter Five U. S. Attachés and the Bolivian MNR, 1958-1964	101
	Conclusions	125
	Appendix One Hypothesis: Why Potential Generals Don’t Want to Be Attachés	131
	Appendix Two Expected Levels of Absolute Speaking and Reading Proficiency in Languages Taught at the Foreign Service Institute	132
	Appendix Three Absolute Language Proficiency Ratings	133
	Notes	135
	Bibliography	163
	Index	173

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