El Salvador Volume 2: Conflagration, 1984–1992 — How Foreign Aid Sustained Stalemate
How can foreign intervention transform a civil war without bringing it any closer to peace?
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Using El Salvador Volume 2: Conflagration, 1984–1992 by David François as our lens, this episode investigates how American military assistance, political legitimacy, and guerrilla adaptation reshaped the Salvadoran Civil War.
François documents the transformation of the El Salvador Armed Forces through funding, advisers, intelligence, helicopters, aircraft, specialized units, and counterinsurgency doctrine. These…
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