Cases by Intervention Node

Note: this is a list of all the cases of intervention situations mentioned in the book. Cases without hypertext links are discussed or fully written up only in the book; cases with links are written up in this website. From time to time, as new information is made available about particular cases, as particular interventions evolve, or as new interventions occur, additional material will be signalled by Update or New.

 

Node 1 (emergency economic assistance)

  • Dominican Republic 1908
  • Nicaragua 1911
  • El Salvador 1921
  • Dominican Republic 1922 and after
  • Cuba 1922
  • Italy 1946-48
  • France 1946-48
  • Mexico 1994-95
  • Turkey 2001
  • Brazil 2002

 

Node 2 (emergency covert political assistance)

  • Italy 1946-48
  • Bolivia 1963-64
  • Chile 1964
  • Guyana 1964
  • El Salvador 1982-84
  • Aghanistan 2004

 

Node 3 (jettisoning the president)

  • South Korea 1960
  • Philippines 1986
  • Haiti 1986
  • Indonesia 1998

 

Node 4 (losing the client)

  • Iran 1978-79

 

 

Node 5 (emergency military aid and advisers)

 

Node 6 (competent clients: open-ended combat)

  • South Vietnam 1965-68

 

Node 7 (competent clients: life preserver)

  • Panama 1904
  • Cuba 1912-13
  • Cuba 1917
  • Panama 1918
  • Panama 1925
  • Nicaragua 1927-33
  • South Korea 1950-51
  • Afghanistan 2003-present

 

Node 8 (incompetent clients: easy wins)

 

Node 9 (incompetent clients: basket cases)

 

Node 10 (political support: drawdown and negotiation)

     

    Node 11 (lack of political support: rapid liquidation)

     

    Node 12 (military defeat)

     

    Node 13 (military supportive, fighting feasible: overthrow by U.S. combat forces

      • Honduras 1911
      • Dominican Republic 1912
      • Dominican Republic 1961
      • Panama 1989
      • Haiti 1994

       

      Node 14 (military supportive, fighting not feasible: long-term pressures)

      • Chile 1971-73
      • Venezuela 2002-present

       

      Node 15 (military neutral: proxy forces and psychological warfare)

         

        Node 16 (military opposed: coups d’état)

           

          Node 17 (coups d’état)

           

          Node 18 (punctuated military operations)

           

          Node 19 (aid to internal armed forces)

          Node 20 (large-scale combat)

           

          Node 21 (sustained and asymmetrical attacks)

           

          Node 22 (combat operations alongside local insurgent forces)

          • Nicaragua 1909-10
          • Mexico 1913-14
          • Libya 1986
          • Afghanistan 2001
          • Somalia 2006-07

           

          Node 23 (invasion by U.S. troops)

          • Grenada 1983
          • Iraq 2003