[Austin Willard Wright]

I think you forgot to add Chiang Kai Shek's effective counter-insurgency methods to the list...and Batista's of course.

[PatrioticCowboy]

Batista was a tin-pot dictator lunatic.

Chiang Kai-Shek was a born-again Christian.

He retreated to Formosa and made that little island a world economic super-power