The United States' Ability to Successfully Effect Regime Change in Other Nations

Abstract

Since the turn of the century, the United States has faced many threats. Since the end of World War II, the majority of these threats focused on spreading Soviet-style communism beyond the Soviet bloc region. Another type of threat the US faced focused on its ability to conduct international trade. In each case, the US government used it powers to counter the threatening nation's actions, and reached an agreement suitable to the US. On occasion however, that tact was unsuccessful, and the US opted to change the ruling regime. Two such cases are Iran in 1953 and Haiti since 1915. The aim of this research is to determine how adept the US government has been at successfully effecting regime change in these two examples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1020128

Entities

People

  • George M. Cundiff

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Cold War
  • Communism
  • Democracy
  • Elections
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • Military Governments
  • National Politics
  • Natural Resources
  • Political Systems
  • Second World War
  • Supreme Court
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.