“Come and take it!”
Seems I read, many years ago, of a scenario where tens of thousands of unarmed Cubans are made to swarm across the no-man’s-land open zone (guns aimed at their backs, of course) and crowd up to the wire, demanding “asylum”. Their sheer numbers threaten to overwhelm the Marine garrison, with Marines reluctant to open fire. The garrison holds out, at first, but thousands more appear and blanket the base with a human flood.
Thoughts?
It’s all been wargamed, and we have more than tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.
And Marines are not reluctant to fire. They will follow orders.
My wife is Cuban. If JFK had only allowed a single plane to leave the carrier during the Bay of Pigs, Castro would be a footnote. Instead, all of those brave men were led to the slaughter by that treachorous piece of human excrement, the great JFK.