Imagine the current POTUS trying to puzzle out these options. "Can't we just bomb them?" [Detailed explanation] "Can't we just bomb them?"
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McNamara perhaps in a warm-up for his dumb decisions re Vietnam advocates no warning and unlimited airstrike. Warning Khrushchev was correct
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The triumph of diplomacy and direct negotiations. A good lesson from not so distant past.
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The "Missiles of October" did not become latter-day versions of "The Guns of August", Thank God.
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Notes prepared by Ted Sorensen (initials top right)
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I was 7. I was terrified. Kept asking my mother if the world was coming to an end. Asking the same question now. I miss my mom.
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That's a great briefing memo
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Thank god no dotard back then.
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I believe JFK didn't like any of these options and that's why he pursued more options on the side, with his brother Bobby.
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Can you imagine the discussion in the Trump WH where his cabinet and COS are all military?
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Cuban Missile Crisis was a drop in the bucket compared to continuing a full-scale war in Vietnam
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In this case, the military was right. Limited or surgical conventional strikes were not possible, as the capabilities weren't there.
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define the Cuban Missile and its economic supply chain and you will arrive at very different Land and Sea advance conclusions
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Fascinating.
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Fascinating document.
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