Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965

The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a classic example of a U.S. military operation that drew in America's hemispheric allies. Finally, its outcome was that rare feat in the annals of diplomacy—a peaceful political settlement of a civil war.

Here for the first time is the full story of that action, as told by one of its leading particip...