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Max Boot
Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Harold Valentine / Associated Press
Operation Mongoose: The Story of America's Efforts to Overthrow Castro
And how they helped seal America’s fate in Vietnam
Max Boot
January 5, 2018