Case Study: Cuba
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Batista's regime had a 30,000-man army, U.S. backing, and a relatively prosperous economy. Castro's 26th of July Movement started with a failed barracks attack, returned from Mexican exile with about 80 men, and never won a decisive military engagement. So how did this end with Batista on a plane out of Havana?
In this episode we walk through USASOC's ARIS case study on the Cuban Revolution and pull out the parts irregular warfare practitioners actually need: the structural weaknesses that made Cuba combustible despite its prosperity, the division of labor between the Sierra Maestra guerrillas and the urban underground, and the deliberate strategy of provoking the regime into counterterror that gutted its own legitimacy. We also look at what came after — how a movement that recruited on a platform of constitutional restoration consolidated into a one-party Marxist-Leninist state within two years, and what that says about the gap between a revolution's stated program and its operational logic.
Source material: USASOC ARIS, Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare: Cuba 1953–1959 (revised edition).
