What American Military Force Can and Cannot Do On the beaches east of Havana, you can still see rusted remnants of watchtowers on the roofs of buildings along the island’s northern coast. Constructed in the early 1960s, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, these emplacements were designed to provide early warning of an attack by the United States—or “the Empire,” in Cuban revolutionary parlance. But by the time I saw them in 2002, during my ti…
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