Cuba Dusts Off Fidel Castro's Old Tactic: the "War of the Whole People" Under u.s. Pressure

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The idea turned out in the 1980s, when the Cuban leader was certain that the USSR would not intervene in his favor if President Ronald Reagan's belligerents attacked the island.The plan was not to repel an American invasion, but to make the military, economic and human bill of a Vietnam-style occupation or Afghanistan terribly costly.

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The escalation of tensions between Washington and Havana, and the possibility, following the Venezuelan example, of a U.S. military intervention, have led the Cuban government to dust off its military doctrine of ‘War of the Whole People’.This concept, devised more than 40 years ago by former President Fidel Castro in the face of a potential asymmetrical confrontation with Washington, did not seek as much to repel a U.S. invasion as to make the …