The Politics of Intervention
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 225 occupation this group changed, but there were never more than nine officers in ...
226 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION location of the Guard posts and to allow a quicker concenĀ tration of troops if rebellion threa ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 227 succeeded in Americanizing and increasing the Rural Guard, the Guard would stan ...
228 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION of a thousand men. There would be no change in the Rural Guard's constabulary function.^20 As a ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 229 tions, etc., which they allege make it impossible for an armed force to be non- ...
230 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION to reward their followers and strengthen their leadership. In all respects they were stunningly ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 231 suasions found a regular army attractive. There were many reasons, not the leas ...
232 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION The American officers attached to the Rural Guard adamantly opposed the creation of a regular a ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 233 investment on political, economic, and military grounds. Let the funds instead ...
234 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION In any case the placing of any more guns in the hands of these people is a dangerous experiment ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 235 Whatever his inclination to settle the Permanent Army question, Taft made no pu ...
236 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION Magoon asked Taft's permission to go ahead with the creation of the Permanent Army; two days la ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 237 Permanent Army, the Rural Guard, and a militia. No missions were assigned the d ...
238 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION subvert the Rural Guard, but if the Guard could remain intact, the army would be no political t ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 239 administration (including Magoon) chose to override the advice of American offi ...
240 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION Portell Vila, Historic de Cuba, IV, 388-89. Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, p. 110. Estrada Palma l ...
The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 241 Transcript, "Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened to Consider the Propo ...
242 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION Brig. Gen. C. R. Edwards, Chief, Bureau of Insular Affairs, to Taft, April 3, 1907; Memorandum ...
CHAPTER NINE RESTORATION AND WITHDRAWAL Ai LTHOUGH no date had yet been set for the Jirst round of elections, the Cuban politico ...
244 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION for Law, Order, Patriotism, Independence, and Gomez. (They also had plenty of unpleasant things ...
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