The moment Nicaragua intervention of 1927-1932 marks a unique and very interesting chapter in Marine Corps history. Marines were dispatched to the Central American republic to support democracy by supervising a contentious presidential election and building an apolitical internal security force,the Guardia Nacional, that could seize over from the Marines and police their own country. However, or U.
S. Marines soon found themselves deep in the jungles,manning lonely posts and on the trail chasing elusive rebels that refused to honor a political process they saw as being tampered with by meddlesome foreigners. Many innovations were developed and countless lessons were... Read the rest of this entry ยป
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