Grisbuktsinvasionen

Grisbuktsinvasionen
	Del av Kalla kriget
	; Karta som visar platsen för Grisbukten.
Ägde rum	17–19 april 1961
Plats	Grisbukten, södra Kuba
Resultat	Seger för kubanska regeringen
Stridande
Kuba	USA; Exilkubaner
Befälhavare och ledare
Fidel Castro; José Ramón Fernández; Juan Almeida Bosque; Che Guevara; Efigenio Ameijeiras	John F. Kennedy; Richard M. Bissell, Jr.; Pepe San Román; Erneido Oliva
Styrka
ca 25 000 armésoldater; ca 200 000 milismän; ca 9 000 beväpnade poliser	ca 1 500 marktrupper
Förluster
176 döda; ca 4 000 skadade	118 döda; 1 202 tillfångatagna

Grisbuktsinvasionen var ett misslyckat försök att invadera Kuba av CIA-tränade exilkubaner. Dessa trupper landsattes i Grisbukten och stred under tre dagar tills de besegrades av Kubas armé och milistrupper.

^ Kellner, Douglas (1989) (på engelska). Ernesto "Che" Guevara (World Leaders Past & Present). Chelsea House Publishers. sid. 69–70. ISBN 1-55546-835-7. ”Historians give Guevara, who was director of instruction for Cuba's armed forces, a share of credit for the victory”
^ Szulc, Tad (1986) (på engelska). Fidel - A Critical Portrait. Hutchinson. sid. 450. ISBN 0-09-172602-6. ”The revolutionaries won because Castro's strategy was vastly superior to the CIA's; because the revolutionary morale was high; and because Che Guevara as the head of the militia training program and Fernández as commander of the militia officers' school, had done so well in preparing 200,000 men and women for war.”
^ [a b c] Szulc, Tad (1986) (på engelska). Fidel - A Critical Portrait. Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-172602-6
^ [a b] ”Dokument 19, 24, 35, 245, 271” (på engelska). Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1963. "X Cuba, 1961-1962". US Department of State. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v10/comp1

[1] Kellner, Douglas (1989) (på engelska). Ernesto "Che" Guevara (World Leaders Past & Present). Chelsea House Publishers. sid. 69–70. ISBN 1-55546-835-7. ”Historians give Guevara, who was director of instruction for Cuba's armed forces, a share of credit for the victory”

[2] Szulc, Tad (1986) (på engelska). Fidel - A Critical Portrait. Hutchinson. sid. 450. ISBN 0-09-172602-6. ”The revolutionaries won because Castro's strategy was vastly superior to the CIA's; because the revolutionary morale was high; and because Che Guevara as the head of the militia training program and Fernández as commander of the militia officers' school, had done so well in preparing 200,000 men and women for war.”

[szulc1986-3] [a b c] Szulc, Tad (1986) (på engelska). Fidel - A Critical Portrait. Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-172602-6

[frusx-4] [a b] ”Dokument 19, 24, 35, 245, 271” (på engelska). Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1963. "X Cuba, 1961-1962". US Department of State. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v10/comp1

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Grisbuktsinvasionen

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