Volume 33, Number 6 · April 10, 1986
The US and the Contras
By Aryeh Neier
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua
by Christopher Dickey
Simon and Schuster, 327 pp., $18.95
Nicaragua: The Human Rights Record
Amnesty International Publications, 36 pp., $5.00
As far back as a quarter of a century ago, some American policy analysts and military strategists were discussing, in broad outline, plans for a war like the one the United States is sponsoring in Nicaragua. We should undertake 'counter-revolutionary offensives in countries subverted to communism,' according to a March 1961 article in Military Review, to give them a dose of the 'political warfare' they wage against us.Military Review, a US Army journal, defined political warfare as
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