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Operation Northwoods was a plan drawn up that discussed the possibility of provoking war with Cuba in a way that would make the USA seem justified. Fortunately JFK did not implement the plan.
Do you think the US would ever implement such a plan in other circumstances? Would it be justified to do so if it maintained US Hegemony?
Here are the memorandum which document the plans. They are only 15 pages, and an interesting read:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//news/20010430/doc1.pdf
Wikipedia entry on the subject:
Operation Northwoods - Wikipedia
Essentially the plan was to use deceit to justify war. Here were the various means suggested in summary form for those who don't want to read the links:
- Provide a climate of tension in which the United States would appear to have justifiable grievances, in world opinion.
- Develop the notion that the Cuban government s rash and irresponsible, unpredictable, and a threat.
- Do this before Cuba can enter into any joint-defense agreement with the USSR (we want a war with Cuba, not the USSR).
Some of the proposed scenarios revolving around the base at Guantanamo:
- Stage a riot using friendly Cubans outside of facility
- set fires or blow up aircraft on base and allege sabotage.
- fire mortars on the base and blame Cubans.
- Capture assault teams coming from city
- Sabotage ship in harbor
- Sink ship in harbor and have mock funerals
- Arrange a "remember the Maine operation" by bombing a US ship
- Arrange for a drone ship to be attacked in Cuban waters. The presence of Cuban vessels investigating the ship would be used as evidence of attack. We could have an evacuation crew go to save the non-existent crew. Casualty lists in US newspapers would give national indignation.
Beyond Guantanamo:
- Start a communist Cuban terror campaign in Miami, or Washington, pointed out Cuban refugees seeking haven.
- Could sink a boat of Cuban refugees (real or simulated)
- Could stage attacks on Cubans in the US, to the point of wounding, to be widely publicized.
- Explode bombs, and bring forth documents showing Cuban involvement.
- Stage Cuban air strikes on neighboring Caribbean nations.
- Hijacking attempts against air and surface craft blamed on Cubans.
- Stage an incident in which Cuba shoots down an aircraft carrying US passengers.
-Stage an unprovoked attack on a US military plane by simulated Cuban MIGS
Do you think the US would ever implement such a plan in other circumstances? Would it be justified to do so if it maintained US Hegemony?
Here are the memorandum which document the plans. They are only 15 pages, and an interesting read:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//news/20010430/doc1.pdf
Wikipedia entry on the subject:
Operation Northwoods - Wikipedia
Essentially the plan was to use deceit to justify war. Here were the various means suggested in summary form for those who don't want to read the links:
- Provide a climate of tension in which the United States would appear to have justifiable grievances, in world opinion.
- Develop the notion that the Cuban government s rash and irresponsible, unpredictable, and a threat.
- Do this before Cuba can enter into any joint-defense agreement with the USSR (we want a war with Cuba, not the USSR).
Some of the proposed scenarios revolving around the base at Guantanamo:
- Stage a riot using friendly Cubans outside of facility
- set fires or blow up aircraft on base and allege sabotage.
- fire mortars on the base and blame Cubans.
- Capture assault teams coming from city
- Sabotage ship in harbor
- Sink ship in harbor and have mock funerals
- Arrange a "remember the Maine operation" by bombing a US ship
- Arrange for a drone ship to be attacked in Cuban waters. The presence of Cuban vessels investigating the ship would be used as evidence of attack. We could have an evacuation crew go to save the non-existent crew. Casualty lists in US newspapers would give national indignation.
Beyond Guantanamo:
- Start a communist Cuban terror campaign in Miami, or Washington, pointed out Cuban refugees seeking haven.
- Could sink a boat of Cuban refugees (real or simulated)
- Could stage attacks on Cubans in the US, to the point of wounding, to be widely publicized.
- Explode bombs, and bring forth documents showing Cuban involvement.
- Stage Cuban air strikes on neighboring Caribbean nations.
- Hijacking attempts against air and surface craft blamed on Cubans.
- Stage an incident in which Cuba shoots down an aircraft carrying US passengers.
-Stage an unprovoked attack on a US military plane by simulated Cuban MIGS
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