Historical antecedents -- The development and implementation of US counterinsurgency strategy in El Salvador and Latin America, circa 1961-1979 -- The Reagan administration enters the maelstrom, 1981-1994 -- Chasing victory, 1984-1988 -- Terminating the bloodletting, 1989-1992 -…
N 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington's largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. In 2003, policymakers looked to this "…
An in-depth investigation of the US counterinsurgency intervention in El Salvador, the largest nation-building effort conducted by Washington between the end of the Vietnam War and the second war with Iraq.