Innovations in Intervention: El Salvador’s Role as a U.S. Strategic and Tactical Laboratory

The United States, amongst other motives, utilized their intervention into El Salvador as a laboratory for strategic, tactical and technological military techniques. The extent of the experimentation has not been fully divulged due to the continued classification of documentation and the secretive n...

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Autor: James Hone, Matthew
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:De raíz diversa. Revista Especializada en Estudios Latinoamericanos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/64048
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/deraizdiversa/article/view/64048
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:militarismo
intervención
América Central
El Salvador
guerra
Militarism
intervention
Central America
war
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Sumario:The United States, amongst other motives, utilized their intervention into El Salvador as a laboratory for strategic, tactical and technological military techniques. The extent of the experimentation has not been fully divulged due to the continued classification of documentation and the secretive nature of U.S. special operations. However, there is sufficient evidence available to reveal that the U.S. participation in El Salvador initiated or expanded on a number of practices that would be incorporated well after the conflict