1950: US National Security Council Authorizes Crushing of Philippine Nationalist Insurgency
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US National Security Council authorizes "all necessary steps" to defeat Huk insurgency in Philippines, giving the thumbs up for paramilitary forces to massacre with impunity any and all villagers unlucky enough to be in their path of destruction
Source: Schirmer and Shalom (1987), The Philippines Reader. South End Press
1959: US Marines Invade Haiti
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US Marines dispatched to Haiti
1965: US-Backed Dictator Marcos Sends Troops to Vietnam
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US puppet dictator Ferdinand Marcos sends troops to aid US destruction of Indochina
Source: Schirmer and Shalom (1987), The Philippines Reader. South End Press