A Skillful Show of Strength: U.S. Marines in the Caribbean, 1991 - 1996

What Marines did in the Caribbean between 1991 and 1996 was both new and old. It was new because humanitarian operations were different from combat in Vietnam or Southwest Asia. It was also new for many because it was "joint," Marines were integrated into joint task forces, especially when they were called on to care for Haitian and Cuban migrants at Guantanamo Bay. But it was also old and familiar. Generations of Marines have deployed to the Caribbean in one role or another. Although they ...