I went back into Cuba in February 1961, two months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. I was only 20 years old, but I had trained with U.S. agents for more than a year in communications and intelligence.

History says that military might cannot guarantee victory, especially when leaders misread a nation's resolve. Amid the US' ...

The long-term consequences of U.S. attempts at regime change have often been disastrous. Political transformation from the outside rarely endures. Instead, such attempts have often led to instability, ...

Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of President Eisenhower's disastrous attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led ...