Crucible of Global Pacification: How the United States Learned to Crush Revolutions in Latin America

Over the last two centuries, the United States became entangled with Latin America in ways that turned the region into a crucible of global pacification, where a repertoire of counterrevolutionary warfare was co-invented, contested, and remade. In response to Latin America’s consistent insurgent challenges to the interests of both local elites and Washington, pacification emerged as the United States’ key instrument for keeping its hemispheric household in order. Crucible of Global Pacifica...