The Nicaraguan resistance and U.S. policy
Subtitle: report on a May 1987 conference
By: David Ronfeldt and Brian Jenkins.
Contributors: Jenkins, Brian Michael.; Rand Corporation.; United States. Dept.of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.; United States. Air Force.; United States. Army.
Publisher: Rand Corp.
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Counterrevolutionaries -- Nicaragua.; Counterrevolutions -- Nicaragua.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Nicaragua -- 1981-1989.; Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1979-1990.; Nicaragua -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Other titles: Nicaraguan resistance and United States policy.
Description: This report presents the results of a 1987 RAND conference on the Nicaraguan Resistance and U.S. Policy Implications. The conference, part of RAND's Western Hemisphere Forum, included presentations on (1) background of the resistance and U.S. support for it, (2) the strategic poverty of the Reagan Administration's vision regarding Nicaragua, (3) the Nicaraguan resistance in transition, (4) Sandinista strategy, and (5) diplomatic-political options in Nicaragua. The conference participants had varied backgrounds in official diplomatic and military capacities and in political activism, policy analysis, or policy-oriented research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"June 1989."
"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the United States Air Force, the United States Army."
"R-3678-OSD/AF/A/RC."