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In some ways, it has been right in front of my face. The 1903 Platt Amendment, Article V stated clearly that the United States expected Cuba to maintain “the sanitation of the cities of the island,” in order to prevent “a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases.” This was just one of many provisions to constrain Cuba’s sovereignty. Again, in 1934, when the United States initiated the so-called Good Neighbor Policy, the new treaty reiterated that “an outbreak of contagious disease in the territory of either of the contracting parties,” could lead to closed borders without it being deemed “unfriendly.”
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ID:
137104
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As the Saigon government collapsed in 1975, the U.S. military evacuated more than 100,000 Vietnamese to the United States. Framed by congressional distrust of military action, the shift to the All-Volunteer Force, and the integration of women into the armed forces, this refugee operation marked a turning point in how the U.S. military perceived humanitarian operations. “Military” and “humanitarian” work co-existed in an uneasy balance, yet over time, operations that might be seen as routine, or even feminized, gained political value. Defining the 1975 Vietnamese evacuation as humanitarian thus became a telling precedent in the military’s growing scope of operations.
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