Cuban War (Communist World)

The Cuban War, known in Latin America as Guerra de Cuba, was a war and unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba between the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 (Nationalist) and Cuba (Communist) that was undertaken between April 1961 to August 1963. It was primarily the result of the Cuban Revolution and the missile crisis that almost started a nuclear war. A counter-revolutionary militia trained and funded by the United Kingdom government's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the revolutionary leftist government of President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado and disarmed the nuclear weapons. Launched from Guatemala, the invading forces were defeated by the Cuban armed forces, under the command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro, within three years.

