Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Quick facts:
On October 16, 1962 President Kennedy receives word from the intelligence that in Cuba there are Russian medium-range ballistic missiles. It was now time to take decisions about what to do. Many theories were discussed:
1) Operation Plan 312: it was an operation that contemplated a fast reaction against single targets such as surface-to-air missile sites or large-scale attacks on Cuba.
2) Operation Plan 314: this was an operation that contemplated a full scale invasion combining the air force, the navy and the army that assaulted the Havana area.
3) Operation Plan 316: this was another invasion plan on a five days notice.
4) Operation Mongoose: it was a convert action operation to use “available assets” to overthrow the Castro government.
This last one has been authorized by President Kennedy on 30 November 1961. Being in the middle of the Cold War period this was a program of paramilitary subversion based on econ...