Delta Force
Banned
I'm thinking warfare between the Soviet Navy and USN in the waters around Cuba, and perhaps fighting between American and Cuban/Soviet air defense units, aircraft, and ground forces on Cuba itself, all the way up to nuclear weapons use in/around Cuba and the American South. While the United States would be able to fight a nuclear war with the Soviet Union and come out with less relative damage, escalation to general war would threaten further nuclear strikes against the United States and widespread destruction in Europe and Japan, which would definitely not be in the interests of the United States.
Would it have been possible to have kept a lid on a Cuban Conflict and kept it from boiling over elsewhere? I know the European members of NATO and I think Canada as well were not interested in fighting a war over Cuba. Could the Soviets have split NATO over a Cuban Conflict?
Would it have been possible to have kept a lid on a Cuban Conflict and kept it from boiling over elsewhere? I know the European members of NATO and I think Canada as well were not interested in fighting a war over Cuba. Could the Soviets have split NATO over a Cuban Conflict?