I was immersed in thoughts about information warfare today when someone reminded me that relations between the U.S. and Cuba weren’t always so tense and adversarial. “Obama and Rául showed the way,” he said. I was in Havana on Dec. 17, 2014, when Raúl Castro and then-President Barack Obama announced a new agreement to restore … Read more
In March, Donald Trump bragged that he would have “the honor of taking Cuba.” In the months that followed, the U.S. Navy flooded the region with warships, fighter jets and surveillance drones, one of the biggest concentrations of American firepower outside the Middle East. In July, CBS News reported that senior Pentagon officials were reviewing … Read more
Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser who secretly negotiated normalization of relations with Cuba under the Obama administration, said he believes Donald Trump will order a military invasion of Cuba. “He’ll do something,” Rhodes said in an interview with Hasan Minhaj, an actor, writer and political commentator. Rhodes said Trump wants Cuba’s beachfront … Read more