DIPLOMACY To the Brink and Back 330 Times
Send in the Marines!
This ringing exhortation has often resounded when the U.S. has found itself in a sticky international situation.
Only rarely have the Leathernecks actually been ordered ashore. But it has now been documented that the threat to use them or other military units has been made with astounding frequency.
On no fewer than 215 occasions since the end of World War II, the U.S. has seriously threatened to unleash some of its military mightfrom a single warship to a nuclear strike forcein order to gain diplomatic leverage. In the same period, the Soviet Union...
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