Cuban War Games

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041214/1/3p92m.html

Drudge has an interesting link to a Yahoo news item regarding war games in Cuba. Hope the link works.

It's interesting reading.

I found the comment about "tanks, towed by trucks" amusing wording. Probably not what the author intended but I could just picture a vintage Soviet tank, no longer in running condition, being pulled around by a '51 Chevy 1/2 ton PU.


Actually I think these war agames are a ploy to distract us from Cuba's long planned invasion of Alabama.
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Trucks towing armored cars and officers armed for battle were mobilized on the streets of Havana early Tuesday.
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Or they could be hauled around on flatbed trailers like we do so that the treads don't tear up the streets. But yes it is a funny image :D .

Of course we tended to do the same thing before WW2 when there was no equipment to train with. Cannons made out of wooden 4x4s, trucks bouncing around out in the fields to help train tank formation driving, broomstick rifles, etc.
 
One of my Uncles was an early WWII volunteer and they sent him to TX to train in armor.....which turned out to be a WWI vintage.
I have a picture or two of him taken beside one of those old high tracked trench crawlers. He was wearing riding britches and funky leggings aka standard issue at that time.

After he completed his training they promptly sent him to the Philippines (sp?) where he worked and fought along side the irregulars and the only tanks he saw were a few the Japanese had. I don't think he got to drive any of'em :)

Somehow the whole idea of us invading Cuba is just such a crack-up. How would we get past their elite, M1 carbine armed shock troops?

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Doc,

I don't believe many Cubans would resist. Sure a few that are part of the machine and stand to lose would. The politicos. But the rest probably look forward to the day Fidel assumes room temp and their country can move out of the 1900s politicallly and 1950s materially.

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My grandfather was in the US Army during the Spanish American War and protected Mobile, Alabama as part of the Coast Artillery. Spaniards never came close. He scared them off.

Unfortunately, the Cuban Invasion of Florida seems to be going very well.
 
Time to grow up and get over the Cuban thing. If we could do that with Viet Nam, Germany, Japan then Cuba shouldn't be too much of a problem.

I volunteer to liberate the Cohiba factories! :neener:
 
"I volunteer to liberate the Cohiba factories!"

That would/should be a primary target IMO.
I'll be right on you heels with the flamethrower er um BIC.

No wait butane would be against the Geneva Conventions, make that matches.

(on a side note - I figure once Fidel moves on to the next life and the Yankee dollars start to roll in the cigar industry would be at some risk since people could make lots more doing other things)
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I believe Castro's motorcade always includes at least one tank towed by a truck, some kind of 'security' measure.
 
How much would Castro sell Cuba for? A couple of bucks from each THR member and we could make a group buy. Then turn it into a gunnies paradise.
 
The United States (southerners) did make an attempt to buy Cuba way back when.

Imagine if that went through....
 
I have deal the U.S. should make, let's trade San Francisco for the valley in Cuba that grows their wonderful tabacco. The best part for Carto would be is that the 'citizens' (really serfs) love Castro more than most of the people in cuba do.

Damn, lets trade the entire Bay area for the entire island of Cuba!!!
 
Don,

1.Good idea IF we can keep the bridge.
2.Depending on how things turn out with the quakes, Castro could end up on an island all over again.
3.Then we make our money back charging him to use the bridge and come out a Cuba ahead on the deal.

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Its not so bad.

I really don't see a problem with what Cuba is doing. Think about all the militarization that the US did after Sept 11. They are simply protecting themselves, just as we would do. You can't blame a country for wanting to be safe, thats what everyone wants.
Does anyone remember what our "chosen Leader's" told to all those who oppose our way of life. They made promises of retalliation and carried through. Cuba's "threat" is just a way of telling us to back off and not push them around. Maybe national isolationism is a good idea. Screw the other countries.
America has "Zones" too. Our military bases are located all around our country and feature a lot more impressive weaponry and technology than "Heat Seeking Missiles".
I know that I may seem like some peace loving Hippy but i am not. I love guns, i love target shooting, I love the outdoors, and the only sport on ESPN I like is the SWAT team tactical shootouts. Besides, we could just kill them from 500 miles away and from the upper atmosphere. Take that CUBA!
 
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